DATE: 11/28/06

CONTACT: Bill Jordan, 864-567-6810; jordan9@clemson.edu

WRITER: Diane Palmer, 864-656-4741; spalmer@clemson.edu

Sprouting Wings to present ‘A Log Cabin Christmas’ at Hunt Cabin

CLEMSON – The Sprouting Wings children will be celebrating a “Log Cabin Christmas” at the Hunt Cabin in the South Carolina Botanical Garden, Dec. 5 and 6, from 3 to 5 p.m. The public is invited to drop in for a free visit.

Sprouting Wings is an afterschool gardening program that works with underserved schools in the community and teaches nature, gardening, horticultural entrepreneurship and sustainable agriculture.

The children, with the help of the Foothills Garden Club, Clemson University students and others, decorated the cabin, for this special old fashioned Christmas celebration. It is decorated with natural materials as it would have been 100 years ago. The children will also be dressed in old fashioned Christmas attire.

Refreshments will be served next to the roaring fireplace.

Fourth grade students will be in attendance on Dec. 5 and fifth grade students on Dec. 6.

The Garden is on the Clemson University campus at the intersection of Highway 76 and Perimeter Road. It encompasses 295 acres of gardens, streams and woodlands and is open year-round from sunrise to sunset free of charge.

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