Our participation in the community partnership to support Maryland Elementary School has been growing for many years now. Among the activities that have prospered is the school garden. We have provided supplies and volunteers so that hundreds of students could participate in instruction and hands on experiences to learn about the interdependence of plant and animal life and our role in this as humans, from putting a worm in the garden box and watching it disappear to picking lettuces to make a salad or turnips for vegetable soup to serve the class.
The school is planning to expand the whole outdoor education model and involve the