This started with a grant to grow a vegetable garden on the other side of the building. Then we moved it into the courtyard, where it is now, just to give the kids a lot of exposure to gardening since most of them live in apartments where they can’t garden. Our garden club gives them a chance to come out and be in nature and explore what’s out here. They see the life processes of our herbs and our fruits and vegetables as well. It’s exciting to see them, especially with the strawberry garden, remark “Oh look, it’s not ripe yet!” When they look at our produce garden they see things that become what we eat every day. We have our butterfly garden and we see the process from caterpillars all the way through to becoming butterflies.
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