“Everyday things tell secrets to those who know how to look and listen to them.” LET’S CREATE A VEGETABLE GARDEN WITH THE CHILDREN

Who remembers it?

This phrase is the introduction to Sergio Endrigo’s song “It takes a flower”.

A success for the children of yesterday and today that makes us sing out loud that “to do everything you need a flower”.

From a flower we can expect a juicy strawberry, a crunchy cherry, a pink flower, a peach as Battisti sang, the orange blossoms lead us back to the wedding day and the flowers of a pumpkin or a broccoli bring us back to whims and resistances. of children to eat a few more vegetables.

We still have in our eyes and in our feet the image and the fatigue of the queues in front of the pavilions of the EXPO. We have seen seeds, sprouts, vertical gardens, talked about food education, health and well-being.

We studied the fertile crescent, the silt and the Nile, the plow, serfs, crop rotation, a common thread that leads us from school studies to the futuristic pavilions of the expo, surprising for the avant-garde and the technological evolution that they have expressed.

Do we remember what we did at school with a jar of yogurt and cotton? ( See the post Spring Experiments )

We have waited for a time that seemed infinite to us, a time made of care, of concern for our sowing.

Waiting, waiting, giving time, respecting, caring for, bathing, warming, protecting and then the joy, the enthusiasm, the screams “is born, is born!”, Emotion, method, science, history, education and culture.

All this in a seed, all this from a flower.

Whether it is on our balcony at home, whether it is in a square in the school garden, together with mom and dad, together with grandparents and teachers, scents and flavors, knowledge and emotions come together and meet in the garden, a beautiful activity to live all together!

Each putting a little bit of himself into it!

Get started by choosing your gardening tools:

• Biodegradable cardboard pots
• Gardening gloves
• Gardener’s bag
• Wheelbarrow