Okay, okay. I can't help but laugh at the announcement in last week's message from the Montgomery Victory Gardens people:
We won! We won! We won!
One can almost picture the nanny-nanny-boo-boos being levelled at the Montgomery County Public Schools on this one... and there are many who say they had it coming.
For more than a year, Gordon Clark and his crew at the MVG have been lobbying the county to make it okay to garden on school property. Things reached a somewhat ridiculous point when First Lady Michelle Obama even came and visited a MoCo school to promote gardening -- ridiculous since the county had long prohibited any kind of gardening on that same school property.
(One famous meeting with school officials included the complaint that gardens couldn't be located on school property because principals might get bird droppings on their nice cars. I am not making this up.)
Well, Gordon and his crew lobbied tirelessly and they won. Good for you, Gordon. Let us hope this is the first of many changes at MCPS.
To read a rather thin article about it in the Gazette go to this link:
To read a rather thin article about it in the Gazette go to this link:
To read more about MVGs efforts I suggest subscribing to Gordon's excellent weekly updates.
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