Comments on: 21st Century Skills: Growing Your Own Food http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2010/03/16/21st-century-skills-growing-your-own-food/ thinking about education Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: svcoxon http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2010/03/16/21st-century-skills-growing-your-own-food/comment-page-1/#comment-3868 svcoxon Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:44:16 +0000 http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/?p=310#comment-3868 I didn't know you were a gardener, too! I miss the garden I had in southwest VA before moving here for W&M. In fact, I would occasionally answer "garlic farmer" when someone would ask about my occupation, though I never sold any of it. I am also a home-tomato snob, but I think I miss my never-dried garlic the most. We are trying to grow some this year, but the soil is so poor around our place and our yard so small and shady that I don't have great expectations. Our next house will have room for a garden and a greenhouse! I had a garden at my former school, too. Each year my students planted lots of things. Though many things weren't ready until mid-summer, we always enjoyed a year-end salad of all kinds of crazy greens that supposedly kids won't touch. I only ever had 2 (out of about 200) students not dive in to their salads--many saying they'd never eaten one before! I never prodded. When the seed is planted, even spinach, kale, arugula, and beet greens, kids consume. We also enjoyed dandelion greens and onion grass in season. I didn’t know you were a gardener, too! I miss the garden I had in southwest VA before moving here for W&M. In fact, I would occasionally answer “garlic farmer” when someone would ask about my occupation, though I never sold any of it. I am also a home-tomato snob, but I think I miss my never-dried garlic the most. We are trying to grow some this year, but the soil is so poor around our place and our yard so small and shady that I don’t have great expectations. Our next house will have room for a garden and a greenhouse!

I had a garden at my former school, too. Each year my students planted lots of things. Though many things weren’t ready until mid-summer, we always enjoyed a year-end salad of all kinds of crazy greens that supposedly kids won’t touch. I only ever had 2 (out of about 200) students not dive in to their salads–many saying they’d never eaten one before! I never prodded. When the seed is planted, even spinach, kale, arugula, and beet greens, kids consume. We also enjoyed dandelion greens and onion grass in season.

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