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.