When a Classroom Garden Became a Community Lifeline
In 2018, third-grade teacher Maria Hernandez in East Los Angeles asked her principal for a small raised bed so her students could grow radishes for...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Ephesians 3:20.
In 2018, third-grade teacher Maria Hernandez in East Los Angeles asked her principal for a small raised bed so her students could grow radishes for a science unit. The school gave her a four-by-eight plot of dirt behind the cafeteria and a fifty-dollar budget. Maria asked for radishes. God had something immeasurably more in mind. Parents started showing up after school to help their children water the seedlings.…
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