Green to Green Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Community Outreach Program

摘要

Three first graders made an indelible impression in my early experience as a community horticulturist at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. They were among the most efficient and enthusiastic weeders I have ever met. Not only did they pull weeds and learn to identify them for an hour or so, but they also devised a system of carrying the weeds on a pallet to our newly constructed compost pile. At the end of our time together, one of the girls begged me to take a weed home with her. All of my attempts to dissuade her did not work. I will never forget my mental picture of her carting home this wilting weed to her mother.