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The article informs that the U.S. Forest Service and the National Garden Clubs are giving opportunity to the students from first through fifth grade to participate in the Smokey Bear/Woodsy Owl Poster Contest to demonstrate understanding of wildfire prevention.

The article announces the winners of the not-for-profit educational organization National Garden Clubs Inc. including Molly Hutton, Laasya Yalaverthy and Spencer Morga.

The article gives information on the Uptown Garden Club container gardening workshop held in July in Albuquerque Garden Center where children from age 2 to 15 participated. Plastic drink bottle and empty cat food container were recycled into a container garden and terrarium planter to be created by each child. The article also announces that the 2012-13 National Garden Club's President Project "Plantings for Public and Special Places" is a contest which includes children in gardening projects.

The article offers information on a program called One Child... One Bulb, which aims to educate and encourage children to have interest in gardening and gardening clubs. The author started this program by encouraging teachers in small schools to start a small garden club with their students. According to the author, the program's objective can be easily accomplished by anyone willing to spend time and interest working with children.