There were two points in the article that really stuck out to me, the first can be mentioned briefly. Allotting land to anything but potential entrepreneurial prospects always comes with heavy opposition. A garden is not just a garden, it’s a means to connect with the land and for something so important to be labelled “an obstacle” is a very unfortunate descriptor of the times in which we live.
The point that stuck out the most to me from the article was around doing the central work of your institution. It is not unknown that the majority of the population does not engage with their natural surroundings. If the Orchard Garden was only used by the individuals cultivating and working with it, it would be relatively unknown to many individuals. Taking the garden, and using it to deliver lectures and classes hits many birds with one stone. You make it a useful and necessary teaching environment, becoming a regular part of many people’s lives. You introduce people (students) to an environment to which many are unfamiliar. You also show a new perspective and experiences; many of us have already had positive experiences being in the garden and I would not be surprised to see many of us implement something similar in our own classrooms.
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