The dirt on Myers soil

Posted on December 17, 2013 | Comments Off on The dirt on Myers soil

The steel dandelion puller that I tried to poke into the lawn where we would start a garden four years ago bent before I could dig more than an inch deep. The earth was that miserably hard. We have a great southern exposure at our site, giving us lots of beautiful sunshine. But we have struggled with the ground beneath our feet since the beginning. Continue reading →

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Better than, “No dessert until you eat your peas”

Posted on December 15, 2013 | Comments Off on Better than, “No dessert until you eat your peas”

          Brief moments in our garden behind Myers Middle School in Albany, N.Y., can go a long way toward explaining what we’re doing. And so each of the Vegetable Project’s adult volunteers probably has an anecdote that captures some of our purpose and some of our accomplishment. One of my recent favorites is from September, just after school opened, when we took class after class out to walk around our heirloom tomatoes and sweet potatoes and cucumbers and beans and squash and many different leafy greens. Continue reading →

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