Harvesting Vegetables

September 29, 2009

By Wendy McDonnell

It’s harvest time!  Corn, carrots, beets and beans are being plucked and pulled in background and community gardens everywhere. It is a beautiful time to celebrate the bounty created from these tiny seeds. What better way to rejoice then to pull some vegetables, and of course turn them into an Eco-Lesson.
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Eco-Lesson #1: Slugs

September 26, 2009

Slugs. When I was a child, my mom paid me a penny for each slug I found and poured salt on. I remember watching them shrivel into tiny balls, waste away and die. It was a form of torture for slugs that I really didn’t question. After all, what use could they really be?

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