Inspired to Garden

You may have read about the book The Gardener by Sarah Stewart in our newsletter.  It's a touching story about a young girl who is sent to live with an uncle in the city during The Great Depression.  She stays in touch with her parents and grandmother back home through letters about their shared love of gardening.  They send her seed catalogs and bulbs and she tells them how she's working on a surprise roof top garden for uncle.  Our class connected to the story in many ways.  With help from my mother-in-law (and super gardener) Judy, we browsed through inspiring seed catalogs, made collages of our "dream gardens", wrote letters about what we'd like to plant and planted some peas in the raised bed in the courtyard.