Roselle
Spring is so close!
I think the snow is over. It seemed like it was going to last forever, but like many things, disappeared with a whimper. Now we can get down to the business of growing things.
We have a couple of gardeners on our staff and I’m going to see if they have any seeds they would like to contribute. I was ruminating on seeds the other day, thinking about how the sum total of human knowledge concerning plants is represented in the totality of seeds in the world. People have been selecting for certain traits and breeding plants to serve us for more years than we can agree on. They didn’t harvest the best plants in the field, they let them go to seed, so that their genetics would be planted next year. The genetic diversity of plant life is a library, created and maintained by people, and represents a sum total of shared provenance. A shared investment that no one can honestly lay claim to. A fund from which we are all entitled to withdraw. This year, many of the plants we grow at Washington Elementary School will be sourced from people we know.
