Small Green Thumbs and a Big Orange Harvest

More Friday afternoon pictures of Friends school kids getting their (little) hands dirty. Here are Ms. Morrisey's students in in April, 2015:

.... And then scrubbing clean again:

But WAIT A MINUTE: those aren't the same kids, and they aren't scrubbing their hands. That's this year's Ms. Morrisey's kindergarten crew, cleaning this fall's carrot harvest:

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These are small raised beds, but they get a lot of love and a lot of use in the spring and fall. There's a lot of jargon and debate about what "real" or "tangible" results should look like in twentieth-century education: personally, I think it should like this colander full of knobby, crunchy beta-carotene.