Gail Short - a freelance writer in Birmingham, Alabama

  • Home
  • About
  • My Portfolio
  • My Latest Work
  • Contact Me
  • Home
  • About
  • My Portfolio
  • My Latest Work
  • Contact Me

Gail Short
Freelance Writer In Birmingham, Alabama
My Latest Work.

Life Lessons From the Farm

11/20/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
In Woodlawn, an underserved neighborhood in east Birmingham, a group of local teens are growing and harvesting bushels of crops, knowledge and opportunity.
The teens are all students or recent graduates from Woodlawn High School, the site of a two-acre urban farm where they and their instructors are growing banana peppers, turnips, collards, okra, sorghum and other produce, along with sunflowers and gomphrena and more than 40 apple, pear, plumb, fig and persimmon trees.
Destiny Nelson-Miles, 16, a soft-spoken 11th grader at Woodlawn, says she has already learned how to harvest, pull weeds around tender plants and build raised garden beds.
“I love how, if I plant something, I’m able to watch it grow and turn into this beautiful thing,” says Nelson-Miles. “It’s so amazing.” Read the full article here. 

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    October 2020
    July 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    August 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    September 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    February 2017
    April 2016
    March 2016

    Categories

    All
    Business
    Home
    Whistleblowers

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.