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 Someone gave the gift of Christmas cactus

 

 

 

 

 

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While doing my usual guerrilla thang, a man asks me if I want any free plants.  Heck yeah!

So Mr. Joseph Gonzales tells me to stop on by the Fleisher Art Memorial where I can pick up parsley or basil or collards or rosemary or tomatoes.  How awesome it was to pick up my plants from a group which believes in “My Community, My World, Myself”

Now 6th and Washington has a full fledged badass garden.  Thank you SO much!

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When I got home and read up on Fleisher, I was pretty impressed with their programs and community partnerships.  As a teacher myself, I am automatically attracted to  “the arts [which] provide a fertile environment for learning because they promote inquiry, experimentation, and application — the basic building blocks of education — and provide an active and positive means for children to process and re-express, in their own terms, their experiences of the world around them.”

Good luck to the little sprouts!

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