Franklin School Garden

Cindy has been working for a couple of years with teachers and volunteers from Franklin Elementary School, a few blocks from our house, on a school garden project as part of the Master Gardeners' school garden project.

Starting from pretty much nothing, the kids, teachers and volunteers have established a really nice garden, which was recently named for Winnie Hanford, a local resident who inspired this garden project.  Winnie and her family recently retired from running the Kensington Video store, a fixture in the neighborhood for over thirty years.

These garden beds have been such a hit with the lower grades that there are now plans to establish a garden for the upper grades, too, in some vacant space behind the school.

This space looks pretty dismal now; I think they have their work cut out for them to make it as nice as the lower grades' garden.