Hopefully you got a chance this month to read the Advocate story about school learning gardens — wish they were so popular when I was a kid, then maybe I’d understand how to grow something without killing it. Anyway, the emergence of gardens as classrooms is thanks in part to groups such as REAL School Gardens who help fund learning gardens (more about them in the aforementioned story).

One school here in East Dallas getting help from the foundation to build a learning garden is Robert E. Lee Elementary. The school will hold its community garden installation, where neighborhood volunteers are invited to help transform part of the schoolyard into a garden, Friday, March 12 at 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 2911 Delmar Ave.

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