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…
Category: gardening with children
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…