Cypress students filling the new garden box

Neighborhood children attending Children's Learning Gardens, fill the new garden box with sand and compost. Last week Pediatric Resident Dr Gerald Williams taught them about tomatoes, so part of this week was spent getting a garden box ready to plant tomatoes. The children are all students at Cypress Elementary School. One, (whose mother also helped) even in Kindergarden.

The original garden box, made of scrap lumber, had begun to disintegrate after four years of use, we built a new one, this time using water-resistant "hardie board" on the areas exposed to moisture.