The time has come! The walrus said. To talk of gardening and children!
My fellow PC volunteer, Helen, and I have started doing gardening classes with the kids from Santo Domingo. A community nestled about 30 minutes outside of Archidona in the jungle. Over the summer there were 2 girls from Duke,working with Fundacion Runa, and living in Santo Domingo trying to promote proper nutrition and gardening with the kids at the local school. They were there for two months and while they did an awesome job setting up the nursery garden and giving nutrition classes; two months is just not enough time to really accomplish what the girls had set out to do. Sooo....with the help of my counterpart, I decided that Helen and I should take over the gardening and nutrition classes with the kids since we are still here for 6 months and some change (me hopefully longer).
Kids are funny is all I have to say. We have only done two classes so far with them and it is certainly an art trying to keep there attention but I think that we are doing alright with them. Our first class was about soil; identifying good types of soil and how to figure out if you have good soil drainage in your garden. The best part for them being the hole digging while we were trying to do a drainage test. Everyone wanted to dig holes and put water in them! You would have thought we had made some amazing new discovery called 'the hole'!
Helen doing her soil test
Lets dig!
Drainage Test: Yep that's a hole there!!
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