i think it was the same year they built the log cabin. yes, a log cabin at my alma mater, kolter elementary.
i am not really sure i will ever understand why an urban elementary school needs a log cabin. it was apparently constructed with grant money secured by the pta, but it's weird. we spent a year studying americana and actually learned to quilt. yes, skills i never obtained. i can square dance, though. thank you, louis rossito.
but, i digress.
one year, we had a community garden. there were wild promises of salad. we watered this garden with some sort of regularity; i only vaguely remember walking to the street side of the school to work in it. (not to be compared with the other side of the school, which was "the big lap" and the "blacktop.")
the garden never produced the wonderous treats i had hoped, but when we ate it, i tasted radish for the first time. and did not like it.
i think the kids at ps6 are going to have more than we ever did; their school is spending well over a million dollars. farming is so trendy now; we were ahead of the curve.
an edit.
upon further searching, i learned that there is still a garden at kolter. holy moly.
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And as my luck continued in elementary school, always being in the wrong class, wrong brownie troop, wrong everything....my class was not a part of the garden...I was very and still am upset about it! But thank god for square dancing and my partner who always farted! :)
what? i thought it was a school-wide project. or at least the whole grade.
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