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Photos: Plant Your Dreams
Monte Marti (center right) holds a bunch of apple tree grafts as he explains how to plant them at "Plant Your Dreams," an event hosted by the Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success and Worldmaker International at the Big Apple Orchard in Mount Vernon on Sunday, April 25, 2021. The event is part of a new curriculum offered by the Academy and Worldmaker. It invited students to write their dreams on paper and plant them along with a Liberty apple tree on the orchard's property. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
Aniyah Dismukes, 3, of Cedar Rapids helps tamp down dirt around a newly planted apple tree at "Plant Your Dreams," an event hosted by the Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success and Worldmaker International at the Big Apple Orchard in Mount Vernon on Sunday, April 25, 2021. The event is part of a new curriculum offered by the Academy and Worldmaker. It invited students to write their dreams on paper and plant them along with a Liberty apple tree on the orchard's property. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
A tag marks the owner of the dream planted beneath an apple tree at "Plant Your Dreams," an event hosted by the Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success and Worldmaker International at the Big Apple Orchard in Mount Vernon on Sunday, April 25, 2021. The event is part of a new curriculum offered by the Academy and Worldmaker. It invited students to write their dreams on paper and plant them along with a Liberty apple tree on the orchard's property. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
Kyah Allen, 15, of Cedar Rapids hops on a shovel as she digs a hole for her apple tree at "Plant Your Dreams," an event hosted by the Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success and Worldmaker International at the Big Apple Orchard in Mount Vernon on Sunday, April 25, 2021. The event is part of a new curriculum offered by the Academy and Worldmaker. It invited students to write their dreams on paper and plant them along with a Liberty apple tree on the orchard's property. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
Kyah Allen, 15, of Cedar Rapids places her dream among an apple tree's roots at "Plant Your Dreams," an event hosted by the Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success and Worldmaker International at the Big Apple Orchard in Mount Vernon on Sunday, April 25, 2021. The event is part of a new curriculum offered by the Academy and Worldmaker. It invited students to write their dreams on paper and plant them along with a Liberty apple tree on the orchard's property. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
Jason Allen of Cedar Rapids (left) holds an apple tree graft upright as his daughter, Kyah Allen, 15, fills in the hole she dug for it at "Plant Your Dreams," an event hosted by the Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success and Worldmaker International at the Big Apple Orchard in Mount Vernon on Sunday, April 25, 2021. The event is part of a new curriculum offered by the Academy and Worldmaker. It invited students to write their dreams on paper and plant them along with a Liberty apple tree on the orchard's property. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
Solomon Cassell, 11, of Cedar Rapids digs a hole with his dad, Karl Cassell (background left) at "Plant Your Dreams," an event hosted by the Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success and Worldmaker International at the Big Apple Orchard in Mount Vernon on Sunday, April 25, 2021. The event is part of a new curriculum offered by the Academy and Worldmaker. It invited students to write their dreams on paper and plant them along with a Liberty apple tree on the orchard's property. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
Blues musician Kevin Burt plays at "Plant Your Dreams," an event hosted by the Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success and Worldmaker International at the Big Apple Orchard in Mount Vernon on Sunday, April 25, 2021. The event is part of a new curriculum offered by the Academy and Worldmaker. It invited students to write their dreams on paper and plant them along with a Liberty apple tree on the orchard's property. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
A group of kids go after a football as they play on the lawn at "Plant Your Dreams," an event hosted by the Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success and Worldmaker International at the Big Apple Orchard in Mount Vernon on Sunday, April 25, 2021. The event is part of a new curriculum offered by the Academy and Worldmaker. It invited students to write their dreams on paper and plant them along with a Liberty apple tree on the orchard's property. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
The Statue of Liberty holds up an apple in a painting on the side of a barn at "Plant Your Dreams," an event hosted by the Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success and Worldmaker International at the Big Apple Orchard in Mount Vernon on Sunday, April 25, 2021. The event is part of a new curriculum offered by the Academy and Worldmaker. It invited students to write their dreams on paper and plant them along with a Liberty apple tree on the orchard's property. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)
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