Tuesday, August 20, 2013

The Perennial Question

The official Hands for Growing summer program is complete for the year, today is the first day of school - and the garden is looking better than ever! 

This is the perennial question - what do we do with the fact that the garden continues to grow and produce after the program is done?

Participants and families are invited to continue going out to the garden to care for it, and to pick anything and everything that's ready. But, when school starts, life changes. There is a new focus and it takes a lot of energy and time.

Relationships, too, change and grow. Sometimes life causes peoples' focus and energy to change, and the question becomes, what happens to the relationship? Of course, there is no one right answer, and often, no easy answer.

In the meantime, here are pictures from the garden this morning. Enjoy!
Potato plants are bloomin


The corn is soooo close to being ready!

Do you see the pumpkin nestled in there?

Beans going up the pole



You have to see the sunflowers in person to
 appreciatate how tall they are!
Lots of tomatoes coming on

Bee balm and Zebra grass


Our funny spiderwort that is blooming
at an unusual time.

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