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On May 23rd, 2014, FORAGING AT THE BERKELEY EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD…

May 23, 2014 Fritz Haeg 1 min read
the lesson today is Beets! and an Edible Schoolyard harvest ready for the museum
the lesson today is Beets! and an Edible Schoolyard harvest ready for the museum

…(the brilliant brain child of friend Alice Waters which feels like a real life utopia of free-range students) is where I am this afternoon with a class of seventh graders to gather harvests to  display on pedestals on the Domestic Integrities rug for the closing ceremony tonight – and they are taking it very seriously, though true to some cliches, as a few of the boys head right for the axes while a couple of the girls spent the hour arranging individual petals and seeds.