Re: Decline in edible gardening

**p*@riseup.net**

Greetings, now here is a good idea and one that is being adopted/ Check out

www.evergreen.ca while they focus on schoolyard naturalization, food
gardens have become integrated into that process. I am talking with the
local Boys and Girls club towards a similar end.

Bob
>>
> Wouldn't it be neat if all schools, as part of their curriculum, had a
> vegetable garden?
> Imagine what those young folks would learn.
> Imagine how the teachers can tie in just about every subject from the
> obvious botany and biology, ecosystems, sustainability, math, history,
> etc.
> etc. Lots of room for social sciences in there as well.
> And how much would a teaching resource like cost the school board? Dirt
> cheap, right.
> Dan
>

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