The old quote about "we stand on the shoulders of giants" always had a lot of resonance with me.
A friend I was helping with garden things asked me how I learned what I knew.
One of the main factors was that I'm third generation of knowledge passed on involving messing about in gardens.
My granddad had a big nursery with his brothers and also ran the Fairview Garden School, which taught ghetto kids how to grow veggies for themselves and to sell with just a piece of dirt and hand tools.
I believe many of them went on to be successful truck farmers and the like.
That was where my mom learned all that she knew, and then passed that on to me.
I thought everyone here being the helpful and pass it along sorts of folks might enjoy a write up done on that garden school, early 1900s.
My granddad took all the pictures too.
Unfortunately, he died in the 1920 flu epidemic.
https://www.russellsage.org/sites/default/files/Livermore_School%20Gardens.pdf
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