SOUTH AFRICA | Wednesday, 3 February 2010 | Views [639] | Comments [1]
One of my favourite teaching tools in the garden - the 'magic mealie' (corn)! We used livestock manure to fertilize the garden plots before planting the seeds, and a kernel of corn must have made it through one of the animal's digestive systems and safely germinated in our beet patch. The kids were half-grossed out and half-amazed at this explanation...