For Young Gardeners, It's Sow, Reap — and Soak
The young gardeners were ready for work, yes. But they also packed bathing suits and towels as a retort to a forecast of fierce August humidity.
At a triangular-shaped, acre-plus patch of garden within the campus of the regional public schools in Great Barrington, Mass., Kessa McEwen, Berkshire Botanical Garden’s education coordinator, scrawled out the to-do list on a white board.
The big task on this hot summer day would be to replace a wooden garden bed that had succumbed to the elements after many vegetable bearing years. The to-list list:
I. Remove trellis
