Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Terry Wereb" <frostedacres@gmail.com>]

Dave-

  Container gardening-- progression of the task would be easy to see, things can easily be rearranged to his liking-- he may even see that what he likes as far as location or arrangement may harm what he is trying to do. A friend with an autistic child found her daughter loved to 'clean' the plants--picking off all manner of insects. However, she refused to pick the fruits of the labor!!!

 

 terry W

 

 

On Jan 18, 2008 12:55 PM, TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net> wrote:

Commendable. However the best activity for your son may not be what works
best for home production or market. Which way are we going on this? And I
for one would like to learn the outcome for him.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 1/18/2008 at 11:48 AM Dave Adams wrote:

>I am a new member with an autistic son who is 12.  I am exploring
>different vegetable farming methods to see which my son is interested in
>and also which methods lend themselves to his functioning level.  He loves
>watering things and tasks that have a definite endpoint work well for him.
>  I am planning several different types of gardens on small scales this
>year.  In addition to our tilled garden, I will add a square foot and
>lasagna garden.   Any advice is welcomed and I was just wondering what
>methods people on this list are doing and maybe some of you have
>compared/tried different methods and I could learn what worked for you and
>why.  Thanks!
>
>Dave Adams
>Sterling Heights, MI
>
>
>

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