A Season for Seeds (original) (raw)

2005, Culture <html_ent glyph="@amp;" ascii="&"/> Agriculture

This ethnography documents a year of gardening, cooking, and studying the culture of an urban elementary school in Michigan. It is a story about a garden and the relationships of hundreds of poor, migrant, and immigrant children to this garden. It is also a story about learning to be a researcher and reconsidering science. The author shares her insights into the ways in which the garden provided the opportunity for teachers and children to connect to each other, to connect to the healing rhythms of nature, to feed hungry children, and to introduce innovation and creativity into a mandated curriculum. More broadly, this article suggests how school gardens can be potent places of resistance to the homogenization and commodification of our food. The themes of wonder, creativity, boundary crossing, place, and communal ritual help us to better understand the places from which our identities and our civic natures emerge.

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