The Gift of Gardening

Alan chadwick took his students to a plot of land that was owned by some one that had been a junk yard. He said, could we use this as a sample garden plot? And the man who owned it said, you can, but the soil is dead. After a time, it became a remarkable garden. It was filled with the most beautiful flowers and planted still there. This is the this is the gift of gardening. You just keep doing it. Even if they throw you in prison, as they did, or disparage you, or throw up their hands or say it's too small, you can't make a difference. I think of wongari mata

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