by Tom Laskawy
Anyone who has come home from school carrying a sprouting bean in a
foam cup can attest that growing plants has long been used as a
teaching tool.
—Kim Severson of the NYT slips a full-throated defense of school gardens into a profile of a new Brooklyn Edible Schoolyard Project
Related Links:
Lesson for schools: sweetened junk shouldn’t count as food
Anti–school garden campaigner Caitlin Flanagan, on Colbert back in ‘06
Failure to cultivate: Why school gardens ARE important
