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? She wore a man’ s castoff button down shirt, white with long sleeves to shield her from the sun, from the green sap that oozed from the wounds created when she snapped suckers emerging between stems and leafy branches. She was ten years old, working whole hot blazing days in the tomato ffelds,working too…
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Leek Nibblers and Compost Jumpers
The animated fifth grader, laughing, dragged me toward the wire-framed bin at the edge of the woods where we compost weeds and spent plants. “Look,” she giggled, “we have compost jumpers.” Sure enough, the bin was almost full of pea vines and gone-to-seed lettuce and, on top of that, three bouncing little kids. — –the compost jumpers. This was a…
Maxwell’s Kale
It was late-September when Maxwell, a dark haired third grader with a thoughtful demeanor, handed me a tray of three inch tall kale seedlings. “My neighbor gave these to us for our school garden,” he said eagerly. I looked at the tender plants that I would have loved to transplant in May and was incredulous as I heard my…
Finding Balance in the Garden
She wore a man’ s castoff button down shirt, white with long sleeves to shield her from the sun, from the green sap that oozed from the wounds created when she snapped suckers emerging between stems and leafy branches. She was ten years old, working whole hot blazing days in the tomato ffelds,working too hard, too long, losing too…
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