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Kids These Days (Bragging on....) - 2009/03/13 10:58
Since I'm not a parent, and my dog breeding days are over, I have to rely on my sister's children to make me proud. I didn't brag when Jan's daughter, Anna Rose Gable, was named STAR Student at Decatur High, (her score was higher than Hank's!), and I didn't brag when Jansie and her 4-yr-old son Joseph appeared on TV while she was fighting trailers in the Decatur School system, but this one tweaks me! 
Hank and I have had a garden since our very first year together, and we're growing in boxes nowadays. Last spring Hank and I toured the UGA organic garden in Athens, along with Anna Rose and her dad, Howard. This year, Anna Rose is a speaker at the Organic something-or-other State Conference, which will be attended by all sorts of organic gurus and food hippies...and then 75 or so folks will tour her garden across the street. 
I am sooooo proud of her!!! 
Anyway, the Conference is being held today and tomorrow, and it was a sell-out...so I missed it. 
Oooo, it's Friday the 13th...hope it goes well for her...
Anyway -- here's the article that ran on the front page of the AJC Metro today, so I guess there was a photo? 
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DECATUR
From unruly weeds to a garden spot
Slow germination: Student’s two-year drive for a community plot on school property begins to sprout its first signs of lettuce.
By Kristina Torres
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Friday, March 13, 2009
Where others saw a snarled mass of kudzu, Decatur High School senior Anna Rose Gable saw tomatoes, blueberries and sunflowers —- the makings of a community garden.
It took two years. And a lot of pleading, sweat and dirty, nicked fingers. But the first shoots of romaine lettuce now peek out of the dirt at what once was an overgrown, brambly corner of school property by Commerce Drive and East Howard Avenue.
There is still work to do. But families can plunk down $65 for a plot just in time for the spring planting season. Gable also is working with a sustainable landscape designer on a conceptual plan that envisions a nature trail, orchard and student-run “farm,” using one corner of the two-acre site for students to grow food and sell it to local markets and the school cafeteria.
“My goal is to get as many things figured out and in place and people here and knowing what they’re doing,” Gable said, giving a quick tour before sinking onion sets and pieces of potato into one of 11 raised beds on the site.
Gable interned her freshman year with Decatur’s thriving Oakhurst Community Garden. Inspired, she spent time her sophomore and junior years tending sungold cherry tomatoes, lavender and peas in a small bed by the campus’ main building.
But she had her eye on the overgrown corner across campus. It took more than a year of research and pleading, but she got the OK. Her project will be included next week in a tour of gardens.
Gable, 18, faces decisions about where to go to college, which likely means handing off her baby to others. In the meantime, she at least will get to see a first season’s bounty.
ELIZABETH LANDT / Staff
Map locates the garden near Decatur High School. Inset map outlines area of detail in DeKalb County relative to metro Atlanta.
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Just imagine if we had done such a thing at Shamrock -- that giant field, all that sunshine...those concrete stairs...
Hank says folks are saying nowadays that you can wear last year's clothes, but you can't eat last year's food...those folks haven't had our vegetable soup! 
Ok, back to the past!.......
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The Georgia Organics Conference is being held next week, not this week...
