A Thought for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

If you follow any food communities in the blogosphere, you’ve probably been aware of the furor caused by an article in The Atlantic critical of the school garden movement. While I’m not going to delve into the specifics of the controversy, I did think this response to it at Civil Eats, Booker T. Washington on School Gardens and the Pleasure of Work was thoughtful and useful. It quotes extensively from Booker T. Washington’s 1904 book Working With the Hands.

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