This past week... and, another chance to get dirty (and fed =)

Well, I must apologize for getting very busy outside of my commitment to keep you all informed about the awesome things Joan, the garden leadership team, and our amazingly generous volunteers are engaging in with the young people at Dickson! I'm trying to sort out a balance of work, play, and more work these days, and something seems to suffer, every week :)

A short scrapbook from the past 7 days (Joan, sorry for not getting to your photos from late Feb.):

Ms. Duffy's students made tea for Dickson's monthly staff meeting

Ms. Moore's first graders, making seed balls with awesome volunteer Eleanor Underhill

Courtney Bloomfield works on gardening-related activities with Ms. Leslie's kindergarten every Wed.

Dickson kids and the wonderful coordinator-extraordinaire Raymond Smith, unloading goodies donated by Haywood Street Congregation (the hard-working church across the highway from us)

Students fearlessly taking home fresh produce!

Everybody loves peppers (everyone except my daughter Josie)

Tea, anyone?

Sifting soil (to help with potting plants)

Mr Withrow's third graders harvesting SALAD. That's right, all caps... just the way Joan likes it

Finally, if you haven't already signed up / planned to come out, please join us for our next group garden workday, this Saturday, from 10 - 1 PM. RSVP with Joan (whose email should be on the right sidebar of our blog):

I love how the version of this that got printed out -- and disbursed to you (or others) via your child's backpack -- had the words "FUN" and "WORKDAY" joined together in bold and underline. Hey, we know that work and fun can be paired together! ;)

Let me close by saying that I continue to look forward to every step along the way in this foundational work that we're doing this year and into next. We're slowly but most assuredly building a school that makes cultivation an act that takes center stage (or at least is not relegated to a diminutive or otherwise trivial role)