Tomato Seeds
ON NO OCCASION HAD I doubted the importance of teaching critical thinking, so I felt no exculpation when my school’s students survived the nuclear event. They’d learned to navigate disasters.
Regardless, before the blight, we college administrators apprehended dogmatic rascals and segregated them from other pupils. Nowadays, in contrast, we educators neither imprison nor ghettoize; ideological restrictions have become ill-afforded luxuries.
Presently, we academics serve as horticulture mentors. Civilization’s continuation relies on plants. Windowsill beans, crucifers, even radishes, quickly grow into nutrients. Raised bed nasturtium, borage, and sage flowers are both food and medicine as are grow-anywhere “weeds” like dandelion, comfrey, and nettle.
I’ve became a community
