Georgiana Brummell on Nostr: What a wonderful initiative! I wish more gardening classes for the blind existed ...

What a wonderful initiative! I wish more gardening classes for the blind existed around the country, particularly in New Jersey. Hadley (a correspondence school for the blind) used to have ones for container gardening, but I don't know if they still do. I have always loved gardening myself. Personally, while I can read a clock, I prefer not to use that when describing where food is, and I probably wouldn't like it for gardening either, but who knows? I would most likely find rows far easier to deal with i.e. third row, fourth container to the right. It's also worth noting that many people have a perception of blindness based on their own life experiences, so they imagine themselves suddenly going blind and how "horrible" (in quotes) it would be for them, or they try something with a blindfold on for maybe an hour or two and then think of how difficult it must be for us. That's very different from someone like me who has always been blind, someone who had time to adjust to blindness, or even someone who has been wearing a blindfold for long periods of time, allowing him to become accustomed to it. Still, it always makes me smile when people at least try to learn about the world from our perspective, and I definitely agree that a good teacher should always be able to learn something from his students.

Master Gardeners, blind students grow together in unique garden

https://source.colostate.edu/master-gardeners-blind-students-grow-together/
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