Horticulture

LESSONS FROM THE PAST

HAVE YOU EVER SHARED your love of gardens and gardening with children, your own or someone else’s? It can be as simple as showing a three-year-old how to make a snapdragon flower open and close its “mouth” or as involved as working with a third-grade class to plant a three-sisters garden (corn, pumpkins and beans, organized as Native Americans traditionally did, with beans vining up cornstalks and pumpkins spreading below to shade the soil).

Whatever the gardening wonders or techniques being shared, the

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