The differently-able students attending the David Rose School for Handicapped Children are challenging themselves to be part of a pursuit which, under different circumstances, you might not expect them to undertake.
On Friday, July 18 the Stabroek Business was invited to witness the harvesting of a quantity of green vegetables, pak choi and lettuce, cultivated by the children with their own hands. Their small ‘container garden’ alongside the school had yielded a bountiful harvest. True, it bore no resemblance to a mega farm nor is it likely to bring any really significant material reward, though it certainly symbolized the return that even children with physical challenges can secure for their efforts.
The produce was cultivated in an assortment of discarded containers and if you knew little or nothing about container farming you wouldn’t have
