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MTSU student Colby Chapman, second from left, places agriculture-related books for children into the Little Free Library he and four other MTSU agricultural education majors made for Reeves-Rogers Elementary School students.
MTSU students Lily Steed, left, Angayla Maxwell and Savannah Scott lay the groundwork before placing mulch in an area at the base of where they will put the Little Free Library at Reeves-Rogers Elementary School in Murfreesboro.
MTSU student Colby Chapman, second from left, places agriculture-related books for children into the Little Free Library he and four other MTSU agricultural education majors made for Reeves-Rogers Elementary School students.
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MTSU students Lily Steed, left, Angayla Maxwell and Savannah Scott lay the groundwork before placing mulch in an area at the base of where they will put the Little Free Library at Reeves-Rogers Elementary School in Murfreesboro.
Five MTSU School of Agriculture students and Collegiate FFA members wrapped up the recent spring semester by providing Reeves-Rogers Elementary School and the community with a gift to enhance their reading skills.
For a service-learning project, the students built a “Little Free Library” and placed it outside the school, which is located at 1807 Greenland Dr. just across from the Tennessee Livestock Center on the MTSU campus.
The students in assistant professor Chaney Mosley’s agricultural education class constructed the red-and-white wooden library “that will be populated with books that focus on agriculture as one approach to improving agricultural literacy across Tennessee,” Mosley said.
“I was grateful when Colby (MTSU student Chapman) reached out to me and said, ‘Hey, we want to build you a Little Library, and ours was actually falling apart and is going to need to be moved,” Reeves-Rogers Principal Natalie Hardiman said.
“I appreciate they are looking out for us, especially being right here across from MTSU. People are in it all the time. They switch out books often, and it’s always full, so this is perfect.”
Mosley said the project is supported by a National FFA Alumni grant.
The Rutherford County Farm Bureau Leadership Committee and Rutherford County Young Farmers and Ranchers donated books.
Mosley said he plans to “extend this project in the fall by making additional Little Free Libraries and will create a mini-grant program that will be open to FFA members across the state to replicate our project where we will provide funding for supplies and will also send them agricultural books to put in their own established libraries.”
