Make Me Like A Well Watered Garden

In the book Seedfolks, a character named Kim travels to vacant lot in her town, Cleveland Ohio, to plant Lima Beans to honor her father, who passed away before Kim was even born. While Kim is in the process of planting her beans and watering them daily, people around the vacant lot being to notice her actions . Many people follow what Kim is doing and make there own little garden, which causes the community of Cleveland to be together and to communicate to one another. Throughout the book many character come and go to the garden, and each character shares something in common with someone else apart of this Community Garden. The novel Seedfolks shows that the garden has change everyone’s perspectives on things, and made them feel apart of something they might have never been apart of before. Some people that are involved are KIm, Ana, Sae Young, Maricela, and Curtis.

The two housewives have a passionate love for gardening and bestow their love and appreciation towards their gardens. In the twentieth century, gardening was advocated as beneficial to one’s life and family. In the New England Quarterly, the journal, “Gardening as ‘Women’s Culture’ in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Short Fiction,” states,“The time women spent in

Gardening is the activity of planting, cultivating and tending (Oxford dictionary 2015). The origins of gardening, and its fulfilment of a human need, date back to 1500bc where archaeologists discovered ancient paintings of opulent gardens by the Egyptians (Cellauro 2015). Recognition of the benefits of gardening as a therapeutic tool in occupational therapy date back to Hartwell (1933). It provides opportunities for social inclusion which is a central component in well-being (Grabbe et al 2013).

Then one day the lot was cleaned. People started to plant gardens and put up fences. There were all sorts of people there. There was one man in a large straw hat who seemed to be trying to help everybody else. One day he was trying to help a boy with his lettuce. The boy had washed his seeds away when he was watering them. The boy couldn’t understand the old man, so the

Fresno is a city located in central California, also known as San Joaquin Valley Famously knows for its grape field and green trees. Known for where the immigrants came to work, by picking grapes making little to know money. Every year I go back to visit my home town about twice a year, each time we get near the grape vine which is located between Fresno and Las Angeles. The first thing that is noticed by the eye is the magnificent greenery and farm lands that can’t be passed without notice of its beauty. Every tree was full and rich looking to the roots and all around the ground would look moist and fully watered, without a doubt these farm lands where being taken care of. Recently in the past three years of taking the long exhausting drive from the dry lands of Tucson to the green lands of Fresno hasn’t been the same. The green lands of central valley are not as green as they once were. The grounds look dry and not as moist as before.

In Will Yandik’s article, “Riding The American Landscape Of lawn,” he attempts to persuade his readers that lawns are outdated and need revamped due to their effect on the environment. Yandik writes about “chemical pollution and runoff, a voracious appetite for water, mowers that belch hydrocarbons,” (Will 539) all of which have been documented for. Yandik struggles with “the aesthetic problem with the lawn is that it allows no room for innovation, growth, or art” (Will 540). In the text “Ridding The American landscape of lawn” he persuades the reader to think differently about “the lawn”, however, I feel as if the lawn is a vital key to our environment along with the way we live by providing an inviting

At Sprouting Hope community garden is located in Hungry Mother State Park Marion, Virginia. During the Emory and Henry’s “Service Plunge” Dr. Davis’ transitions I class spent their time volunteering to weed the garden. The garden is ran by Jason Von Kundra, an enthusiastic leader for this non-profit organization. The garden allows low income families from the surrounding areas to have healthier eating options. The opportunity to learn the importance of nature and the process of growing ones food. Sprouting Hope is an organization that exemplifies the traditions we as a country has lost. The importance of healthy food has diminished over time due to factors such as work, convenience and the overall fast pace of the twenty first century.

In the 16-1800s having a garden was thought to be a necessity of life says Martha White in Traditional Home Remedies. (White 2000)

Community gardening is “a solution emerging from grassroots environmental and food movements” (Nettle 2010) While community gardens are often discussed as a progressive, new practice in sustainability, community gardens have actually been cultivated “since at least the nineteenth century,” when community gardens were grown by many working-class neighbourhoods during large industrial periods (Lawson 2004). Furthermore, during both World War I and World War II, community gardens grew produce for middle-class families in times of war scarcity in Great Britain, the United States and Australia (Guitart

Vegetable gardening is increasingly popular for Tennessee residents. The value of home gardens includes financial and nutritional benefits from growing of fresh vegetables. Gardening activities also enhance personal health and well-being. However, a basic understanding of soils, site selection, and crop maintenance is required before a gardener can take full advantage of the benefits of home vegetable production. To meet these needs, this series of factsheets has been prepared by UT Extension to inform home gardeners and propel them to success in residential vegetable production.

The little house was on a small plot of land where chickens grazed and was home to a wide variety of plant life. We rolled up our sleeves and did a little backyard foraging. Our salad dressing included grape juice straight from the vine and local honey from the owner’s apiary that he had left as a gift. The herb sauce that garnished our vegetables included fresh almonds plucked from the tree.

Gardening quickly gained momentum during first years of the twentieth century. The United States Department of Agriculture estimated that there were more than 75,000 school gardens by 1906. During both world wars, the United States Federal Bureau of Education encouraged youth to help the country through the Victory Garden programs and the United States School Garden Army. The tagline for the U.S. government’s youth gardening program in World War I was, “A Garden for Every Child. Every Child in a Garden.” During World War II, Vice President Henry Wallace said “On a foundation of good food we can build anything. Without it we can build nothing.”

In the back of my high school, there was a dirt plot, fenced in, covered in weeds, and it was going to concreted over. I walked past the dirt plot and wondered “Why doesn’t anyone do something with it?” I thought about it on the way home from school and I talked to my friends about it. I told them that I wanted to do something with space, we came up with many things to do with the space before but then I realized that we could use the space for a garden. I remembered that I love gardening, when I was young my mom and I would always garden together, we would have the best time harvesting our plants and we bonded so much over our garden.

The garden was very beautiful although it had no flowers. I was always impressed that there were never any weeds to be seen. The soil was very dark and very rich; it was also very sandy, which meant it drained well. The garden also had a very nice path that was throughout the garden, around every plant so it was easier to take care of, I am not sure who put the path in, my grandpa or my uncle. My grandma also taught me what plants not to grow together, she found out that when two squashes were planted together; they cross pollinated. She had pumpkins and yellow squash that she grew together in the same place that cross pollinated. When she planted the seeds the next year that she had saved from the previous year: she got a cross between a pumpkin and a yellow squash. I also learned that I liked fresh from the garden young lima beans. Until I started going to my grandparent’s in California, I never liked lima beans. Lima beans have a very strong flavor, sometimes they are bitter. Grandma told

How people is the Garden personal ? All of them are respetful about us. We tried to learn and observe. Our focus point is constructed on the experience at the out of the class.