we will be planting kale and winter cabbage.
 
 
 
 

"It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later."
~Wayne Winterrowd~

Rebecca W. help Clemson Elementary students plant 

pansies, winter cabbage, and kale. The HORT students allowed 

the students to design their own beds.
 

"The wonderful thing about garden-based learning is that it's a hands-on, minds-on experience where my students and I learn together."
~Kids and Classrooms~

"Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited
aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such
as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks."
~Kurt Vonnegut~

flowers. The kids decided to place the cabbage in the middle 

surrounded by kale and pansies.
 

"Usually children spend more time in the garden than anybody else. It is where they learn about the world, because they can be in it unsupervised, yet protected. Some gardeners will remember from their own earliest recollections that no one sees the garden as vividly, or cares about it as passionately, 
as the child who grows up in it."
~Carol Williams, Bringing a Garden to Life~

tools they will be using. I don't believe we expected the large group of 

kids that we were faced with. It was still loads of fun.
 
 

"I am inclined to think that the flowers we most love are those we knew when we were very young."
~Dorothy Thompson~

or Bill when you need their expertise?
 

"There are no seven wonders in the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million."
~Walt Streightiff~

Erin and Michael's kids make them do all the work. 

What happened to Joseph and Kathy?
 
 
 

"Every child is born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature, 
open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the flowers, 
and the mystery of life." 
~R. Search~