Groom Observation Report

In the book Seedfolks, a character named Kim travels to vacant lot in her town, Cleveland Ohio, to plant Lima Beans to honor her father, who passed away before Kim was even born. While Kim is in the process of planting her beans and watering them daily, people around the vacant lot being to notice her actions . Many people follow what Kim is doing and make there own little garden, which causes the community of Cleveland to be together and to communicate to one another. Throughout the book many character come and go to the garden, and each character shares something in common with someone else apart of this Community Garden. The novel Seedfolks shows that the garden has change everyone’s perspectives on things, and made them feel apart of something they might have never been apart of before. Some people that are involved are KIm, Ana, Sae Young, Maricela, and Curtis.

The narrator believes she, too, can hide from reality in the garden. “ had a way of disappearing in the garden, as if the garden itself ate them, or, as if with its old-man memory, it put them away and forgot them” (paragraph 5). That is what she wanted from the garden, to be hidden or forgotten, as a child, “ a thousand years” like the “ of murdered pirates and dinosaurs” buried in the garden (paragraph 7).

The garden was something she built with her own hands just like her home that she cherishes and accomplished something that only men were viewed in the society as being able to complete such a feat. Her building and taking care of the garden shows her passion and determination in life, as it is something she crafted and learned on her own with no ones

She proved this idea by talking about the three ways we are dependent on soil and how we treat it in return. The first thing we are reliant on soil for was water and the filtration of soil; she talked about how we fight for water even if we have a lot of it and how it was important to us

And now and then in the afternoon she would burst through the door holding flowers and cookies and smelling fresh like the outdoors. She would stay for a moment or two and chat about with the children about the wonderful weather or her garden. The children would show her the pictures that they had drawn and ask her questions about their mother. Which she could never answer, but she would try.

In Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman, the first character Kim, was brave enough to start a garden by planting a bean. Later on more and more people started planting and soon, it becomes a community garden. The garden bought more people in the community together and made it more communicative and friendly. Just because of a single little girl, things started to bloom and turn out to be a beautiful garden. Because she took action, she was able to bring the community together.

With the success of many farms to school programs across the nations, I believe this to be a sure way to get this nation back on the right track to healthy eating. It is important to begin teaching kids about the healthy option so they will know how and why

1. Kids will learn the importance of incorporating 5 servings of fruits and veggies daily; they will learn about the significance of “rainbow foods”

Some interesting statics that "PROVE" SOEMTHING are 49% of students that participated in a Food Sensations sessions intended to make the foods prepared (in the session) at home, and approximately one in five students intended to make changes to the foods that they eat. After participating in a session 100% of students were aware that they should eat two fruit and 91% knew that they should eat five vegetables (related to an older government initiative called 'Go for 2&5'). 91% of students enjoyed participating in the Food Sensations session. This shows us that initiatives that strive to encourage and increase awareness of the need to eat more fruit and vegetables can have positive influence on

Whenever an interviewer or a person visited to discuss her sisters’ ill-fated deaths, she brought them into the garden so she would be at peace with herself and so she found calmness within herself to reconcile those events. Also, the garden represented Dede’s character as well when she describes the yard by telling the

Second main sub point: encourage parents to give their kids lunch boxes with healthy food.

The two housewives have a passionate love for gardening and bestow their love and appreciation towards their gardens. In the twentieth century, gardening was advocated as beneficial to one’s life and family. In the New England Quarterly, the journal, “Gardening as ‘Women’s Culture’ in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Short Fiction,” states,“The time women spent in

Depending on what each person’s purpose was for having a garden, each garden would have different elements. A nurse or midwife would have medicinal herbs, a spinner or weaver would have dye plants, or a decorative garden would have brightly colored flowers. (Pleasant 2004)

Upon reviewing the community vitality data I came to the conclusion that the health problem that a health education program would be most appropriate to address would be childhood nutritional health and fitness. I came to this conclusion after careful data analysis. Of the county’s adults (18+) 77% ate less than five servings of fruits and vegetables per day, this percentage is so high likely because of attitudes and habits these adults picked up when they were children. The second largest age demographic in the county is children aged 10 to 17 are overweight, six percent more than the state average, 88% of children age 10 to 17 are not meeting daily targets for fruit and vegetable consumption and 30% age 10 to 17 watch 3 or

Gardening is a beneficial aspect of anyone’s day to day life. It’s something that is enjoyable for the elderly, young children, single people, and married couples. Gardening is also a way to bring the family together. Whether the garden is for aesthetic or utilitarian purposes, the hard work put into the garden is worthwhile. Gardens can provide financial relief, a healthier diet, and a healthier lifestyle. Gardening could also be a great life lesson that is carried and passed on through generations.