Field and Garden: 4-H camp offers fun, educational activities

“Ready, set, go!” said the small, red-haired girl as she tightened her grip on the foot-long four-by-four, holding it tightly against the shop floor.

Her blonde-haired counterpart had already placed the tip of her drill bit where an “X” was marked on the board’s surface. At the word “go,” she squeezed the trigger, and the drill spun into action.

I watched as the girls repeated the process several...