Winter crop planted on island at Side Street Projects
Before we arrived the boys in the neighborhood were at Side Street Projects. They had worked the soil, preparing it for planting seeds. Diana Lind, editor of Next American City, was in town for a week of events for the magazine and was able to join in the activity.
We arrived with various kinds of seeds such as spinach, basil and lettuce and sat down with the boys around the island. “How deep should we plant them?” invited us to look at the package and talk about how the body has been used to measure things for a long time and is the foundation for the inch. We used our thumbs as measuring sticks, poking holes in the ground.
