I welcome the adult-oriented peace at my new place. But I hope to stumble on this atmosphere now and then, maybe when I clinic somewhere, to remind myself of those precious days. It was a magical time of Breyers and saving birthday money for brushes. I get lost in those memories.
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Itâs an opinion. Itâs an informed opinion, based on working on farms and knowing many people in farming, and in sustainable ag advocacy over decades.
As far as your other accusations, I will never forget a radio interview I heard on a college radio station with an organic strawberry grower. For context, I lived at that time in the premier strawberry area in the US â if you eat anything but local seasonal farmers market strawberries, you are almost certain to be eating strawberries grown there â and it is dependent upon very dubious practices, such as covering many acres with plastic sheeting and introducing nerve gas (chlorpicrin) underneath to kill every living thing before planting. So the interviewer was really pushing this organic grower to deplore these practices and extol the organic way. And I was expecting him too. But he wouldnât. He wouldnât budge an inch in his support of other strawberry growers no matter what their methods were. In his mind, all the farmers were engaged in a common, difficult, laborious enterprise, and he felt far more solidarity with them than with some random interviewer with an agenda.
Oh, and yeah, Iâm a zealot. Farming is just one of an array of zealotries I cherish.
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This is a long tread and I havenât read thru 1/4 of it but OP, I feel for you. I am a sensitive soul and things bother me. I can see how the fact that you love goats compounded the horror of the situation. Hugs.
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I will say the ones in my district are awesome, but all elementary level and kids are all selfish shits once they are halfway through middle school soooooâŠ
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Some of the problem with school gardens is that when the end of the school year comes, there isnât planning for continued care. Some kids might find this distressing. A.d of course in many areas, summer is when you get the best produce from the garden.
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This reminded me that many of us were influenced by personally knowing the WWII generation, including children, that lived through rationing and Victory gardens.
For a few years some city-raised kids had a garden and maybe chickens in the backyard. But afterward that went away. Will guess that most of those neighborhoods would no longer permit raising farm animals in the backyard without some sort of special permission.
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When I was in junior high school (middle school), my science teacher did a garden with each of his classes. We were just getting ready to start harvesting at the end of the semester (California, so less concern with the growing season), when the maintenance crews ploughed the whole thing up. We all cared deeply about our little plots, and were very upset.
Many years later, we lived in a house with a tiny yard from when my daughter was five until she was ten. We got a plot in a nearby community garden, and had lots of fun growing corn, tomatoes and a bunch of other stuff.
My now 29 year old daughter has no place for a garden at her townhouse, but she has a huge number of indoor plants. Her boyfriend said the other day that he was going to have to set a âget a plant, give away a plantâ rule so he doesnât get pushed out.
Rebecca
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My kids went to a Montessori school with community gardens. The kids actually sold the vegetables in a farm stand. It was a good experience (though my personal kids get tons of exposure on our farm!)
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Charlotteâs Web was illustrated by the superb Garth Williams.
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He also did the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. A treasure!
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