There’s now a blooming garden at every school site in the Lawrence school district. One school garden, cared for by the Billy Mills Middle School Garden Club, grows tomatoes, purple peppers, radishes, garlic and an abundance of other vegetables. Club members plant flowers and tend to natural species of plants while engaging with the insects fluttering, crawling or wriggling within the ecosystem. Billy Mills sixth grader Delyla Kring-Hicknan said she feels fully connected to nature when gardening, especially since club members don’t spray herbicides or pesticides on the garden. And they get to enjoy the food they grow. “I just love to get out there and explore and smell the flowers, look at the bugs, pick the ripe fruits and vegetables,” Delyla said. “You actually get to feel how it feels to plant your own food and eat it, because normally fresh grown vegetables or fruits itself, they taste much better because they’re naturally grown.”
Source: The Lawrence Times
