Children learn about the beauty of organic gardening at the San Antonio Botanical Gardens.
The San Antonio Botanical Gardens is known for showing of exotic plant life — like orchids and colorful roses.
But in rear of the Botanical center more mundane plants are grown — back at the Children’s Vegetable Garden.
Every Saturday morning children like nine-year old Ben Wenzel show up with their parents in tow to work on their assigned plot of land
And recently it was time for the big harvest.
Ben’s mom Laurie carries off their haul of produce in re-used plastic grocery bags.
“We’ve got a couple of little turnips. We picked the little ones. We’ve got a bunch of tomatoes. Then I’ve got a bunch of spinach. We’ve got lots of green beans,” she said.
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