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they loved. (They weren’t big

fans of the fresh mint and lemon

balm.) They were inquisitive

about the difference between

ripe and unripe tomatoes. For

them, it was the first time seeing

mint and other edibles from a

garden, a sentiment Curtis

shared.

“It all sounds so simple,” Cur-

tis said, “but me being from the

city and never being around a

garden” made it exciting.

She said she was pleased to see

what she planted during her first

visits to the garden finally

bloom.

Now, Curtis wants to start her

own inside garden at home in

Anacostia. She has started weed-

ing her lawn, knowing what

should be removed and what

should stay.

And she’s planning a return to

the school garden next summer.

She has learned a lot, and she can

offer a key piece of advice to

those thinking about gardening:

Don’t get a manicure first.

[email protected]

the garden offers. During the

school year, students also grow

kale, peppers, carrots, rosemary,

cilantro, chives, pears, apples

and plums. Carnochan also runs

the school’s Green Club, which

gets high school students in-

volved in using what they grow

to try new recipes. Last year, they

made strawberry ice cream and

cucumber soup from their har-

vest.

“One thing I focus a bit on is

being open to new things, new

tastes and new flavors, and hav-

ing an open mind,” Carnochan

said. “So I think that is one thing

students who are with Green

Club all year [get] is a willing-

ness to try new things and be

adventurous and open, which

can be applied beyond the gar-

den.”

The same held true for her

summer volunteer.

Curtis, 33, took her neighbor’s

children, ages 2, 5 and 7, to the

garden. She would also bring

them cucumbers and tomatoes

to try at home, which Curtis said

items one recent morning. She

placed the goods in teachers’

mailboxes, based on previously

requested orders.

The produce selected on this

day was just a sampling of what

means that the garden now is in

a much better place with these

students.... I was able to keep

the garden way more weed-free.”

Carnochan harvested Swiss

chard, okra, basil and other

the communities around them to

make sure that there is a richer

and more dynamic experience

where that garden serves as that

connector.”

There’s also a long wait list at

many community gardens, Kang

said.

Working with the schools

would give residents a chance to

reap the benefits of a community

garden and support their local

educational institution.

During some summers, high

school students attending class-

es or taking prep courses would

help care for the garden at

Thurgood Marshall, Carnochan

said. But she praised the help

from Shared Roots and volunteer

Rhonda Curtis, who she said

made caring for the garden easi-

er.

“[Rhonda] was so super amaz-

ing that it didn’t matter that it

was just one person,” Carnochan

said, adding that Curtis was

eager to learn. “From a more

practical standpoint, having her

volunteer with me this summer

seven sites last summer.
There are more than 7,000
gardens in schools across the
country, according to the 2015
Farm to School Census. In 2010,
the District passed the Healthy
Schools Act, which required the
state superintendent’s education
office to establish the School
Gardens Program. Now there are
134 school gardens in the District
— 67 belong to D.C. Public
Schools, 58 belong to public
charter schools, and nine are
private, according to the District
of Columbia Healthy Schools Act
2018 Report.
Twenty-five of the gardens
were established during the 2017-
18 school year.
As the number of school gar-
dens grows, so has the need for
help.
State Superintendent of Edu-
cation Hanseul Kang called the
partnership with Shared Roots
“a great way to expand that
connection between schools and

GARDENS FROM B1

AVERAGE RECORD ACTUAL FORECAST

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Today’s tides (High tides in Bold)

WORLD Today Tomorrow

Sources: AccuWeather.com; US Army Centralized

Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air

quality data); National Weather Service

* AccuWeather's RealFeel Temperature®

combines over a dozen factors for an accurate

measure of how the conditions really “feel.”

Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain,

shsn- showers, -snow, i-icet-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries,

Moon Phases Solar system

NATION

OFFICIAL RECORD

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REGION

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Norfolk

Ocean City

Annapolis

Dover

Cape May

Baltimore

Charlottesville

Lexington

Washington

Virginia Beach

Kitty Hawk

Harrisburg Philadelphia

Hagerstown

Davis

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Temperatures

Precipitation

for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica

Yesterday's National

80° 3:22 p.m.

65° 5:45 a.m.

86°/69°

97° 1998

54° 1935

79° 1:36 p.m.

61° 2:34 a.m.

86°/63°

97° 2007

47° 1971

80° 3:07 p.m.

60° 5:11 a.m.

84°/64°

97° 1968

51° 1963

Washington 4:25 a.m. 12:10 p.m. 5:17 p.m. 11:49 p.m.
Annapolis 2:20 a.m. 8:53 a.m. 1:36 p.m. 8:09 p.m.
Ocean City 4:10 a.m. 10:15 a.m. 4:49 p.m. 11:17 p.m.
Norfolk 12:17 a.m. 6:11 a.m. 12:12 p.m. 6:46 p.m.
Point Lookout 5:26 a.m. 10:03 a.m. 3:46 p.m. 10:53 p.m.

78 ° 68 ° 81 ° 71 ° 84 ° 70 ° 85 ° 66 ° 87 ° 69 ° 89 ° 69 °

Sun 6:31 a.m. 7:48 p.m.

Moon 1:55 a.m. 5:05 p.m.

Venus 6:48 a.m. 8:02 p.m.

Mars 6:42 a.m. 7:58 p.m.

Jupiter 2:56 p.m. 12:29 a.m.

Saturn 5:09 p.m. 2:40 a.m.

Aug 30

New

Sep 5

First

Quarter

Sep 14

Full

Sep 21

Last

Quarter

0.00"

1.97"

2.40"

30.76"

25.87"

0.00"

4.51"

2.91"

29.56"

27.38"

0.00"

2.39"

2.70"

27.09"

27.26"

Blue Ridge: Today, mostly cloudy, cool, shower. High
60–64. Wind southeast 4–8 mph. Tonight, mostly cloudy,
shower. Low 54–58. Wind southeast 3–6 mph. Tuesday,
mostly cloudy, showers, milder. High 65–69. Wind
southwest 4–8 mph.

Atlantic beaches: Today, mostly cloudy, windy, showers.
High 75–80. Wind northeast 12–22 mph. Tonight, mostly
cloudy, shower. Low 65–73. Wind northeast 7–14 mph.
Tuesday, mostly cloudy, humid, shower. High 77–82. Wind
east 7–14 mph.

Pollen: High

Grass Moderate

Trees Low

Weeds High

Mold High

UV: Low

2 out of 11+

Air Quality: Good

Dominant cause: Ozone

77/67

81/72

75/70

78/69

77/65

75/68

77/66

75/66

75/63

79/71

79/72

79/63 77/63

77/64

68/59 78/68

72°

72°

77°

73°

Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly cloudy, shower.
Wind northeast 7–14 knots. Waves a foot or less. • Lower Potomac
and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly cloudy, shower. Wind northeast
7–14 knots. Waves around a foot on the Potomac, 1–3 feet on the
Bay.• River Stages: The stage at Little Falls will be around 3.1 feet
today, holding nearly steady into Tuesday. Flood stage at Little Falls
is 10 feet.

Albany, NY 76/54/s 77/62/pc

Albuquerque 97/67/s 94/66/s

Anchorage 68/50/pc 66/52/pc

Atlanta 80/70/c 85/71/t

Austin 101/78/s 100/75/s

Baltimore 77/66/c 79/69/c

Billings, MT 75/51/pc 76/49/s

Birmingham 79/72/t 87/73/t

Bismarck, ND 73/53/pc 66/50/pc

Boise 85/54/s 90/60/s

Boston 70/57/pc 75/62/pc

Buffalo 78/64/pc 77/67/sh

Burlington, VT 78/54/s 78/63/pc

Charleston, SC 85/71/c 89/73/t

Charleston, WV 78/64/pc 83/67/t

Charlotte 80/66/pc 79/67/sh

Cheyenne, WY 73/47/pc 69/47/pc

Chicago 75/67/t 79/60/pc

Cincinnati 70/67/t 78/61/t

Cleveland 78/67/pc 78/62/t

Dallas 101/78/s 90/72/pc

Denver 80/55/s 77/54/pc

Des Moines 75/60/t 77/57/pc

Detroit 75/66/sh 81/60/t

El Paso 104/77/s 102/76/s

Fairbanks, AK 64/44/c 61/49/c

Fargo, ND 73/55/pc 64/52/pc

Hartford, CT 76/51/pc 78/58/pc

Honolulu 92/78/pc 91/76/s

Houston 97/79/pc 97/77/pc

Indianapolis 74/69/t 81/61/t

Jackson, MS 85/74/t 89/73/t

Jacksonville, FL 88/75/t 91/75/t

Kansas City, MO 82/60/t 80/56/pc

Las Vegas 108/85/s 108/86/s

Little Rock 88/74/pc 85/68/t

Los Angeles 88/66/s 86/66/s

Louisville 75/70/t 83/64/t

Memphis 85/75/t 86/69/t

Miami 90/78/pc 91/77/t

Milwaukee 72/65/t 79/59/pc

Minneapolis 70/59/r 72/57/pc

Nashville 78/71/r 85/67/t

New Orleans 84/77/t 91/78/t

New York City 73/62/pc 74/68/c

Norfolk 81/72/r 83/72/sh

Oklahoma City 97/69/pc 80/65/r

Omaha 77/60/t 76/56/pc

Orlando 92/76/t 90/76/t

Philadelphia 77/63/pc 78/68/c

Phoenix 108/86/s 111/88/s

Pittsburgh 77/64/pc 77/66/t

Portland, ME 71/51/pc 76/56/s

Portland, OR 86/60/s 96/62/s

Providence, RI 73/53/pc 75/59/pc

Raleigh, NC 79/64/c 81/67/c

Reno, NV 96/64/s 99/66/s

Richmond 77/67/sh 82/68/c

Sacramento 100/63/s 98/63/s

St. Louis 84/68/t 82/63/pc

St. Thomas, VI 90/80/s 90/79/pc

Salt Lake City 85/58/s 89/62/s

San Diego 80/68/pc 77/67/pc

San Francisco 80/59/pc 81/62/pc

San Juan, PR 91/80/s 90/79/pc

Seattle 77/58/s 85/61/s

Spokane, WA 80/52/s 84/56/s

Syracuse 77/58/s 75/65/c

Tampa 90/79/t 89/79/t

Wichita 89/64/pc 82/60/pc

Addis Ababa 68/55/t 66/55/t

Amsterdam 87/65/s 87/65/pc

Athens 93/77/s 92/76/s

Auckland 62/51/sh 58/48/s

Baghdad 118/86/s 118/86/s

Bangkok 89/78/t 90/78/t

Beijing 85/65/c 93/67/s

Berlin 90/67/pc 91/68/t

Bogota 69/49/r 68/49/pc

Brussels 88/65/s 89/66/pc

Buenos Aires 72/56/c 72/61/pc

Cairo 98/77/s 97/76/s

Caracas 73/67/t 73/68/t

Copenhagen 77/64/s 78/66/pc

Dakar 86/77/t 87/79/t

Dublin 67/51/pc 67/56/pc

Edinburgh 73/52/pc 71/56/pc

Frankfurt 88/66/t 89/66/pc

Geneva 82/57/pc 84/64/pc

Ham., Bermuda 87/79/pc 86/79/sh

Helsinki 74/53/pc 73/54/pc

Ho Chi Minh City 90/77/t 91/77/t

Hong Kong 89/82/sh 90/82/sh

Islamabad 93/75/t 96/79/s

Istanbul 89/75/s 88/74/s

Jerusalem 88/66/s 87/68/s

Johannesburg 78/51/s 78/51/s

Kabul 92/62/s 93/62/s

Kingston, Jam. 89/80/pc 91/78/s

Kolkata 89/78/t 91/78/t

Lagos 84/75/t 83/75/t

Lima 64/58/s 64/58/s

Lisbon 82/65/pc 82/63/s

London 89/63/pc 87/62/pc

Madrid 86/63/pc 82/63/t

Manila 88/78/t 85/78/t

Mexico City 75/58/t 74/57/t

Montreal 80/56/s 79/64/c

Moscow 70/58/c 69/47/pc

Mumbai 86/79/c 86/79/pc

Nairobi 77/54/pc 77/56/c

New Delhi 90/78/t 93/81/t

Oslo 75/53/s 76/59/pc

Ottawa 80/53/s 76/64/c

Paris 91/66/pc 92/67/pc

Prague 81/63/t 83/63/t

Rio de Janeiro 76/63/pc 78/65/pc

Riyadh 110/79/s 112/79/s

Rome 85/68/pc 85/68/pc

San Salvador 87/69/t 89/69/t

Santiago 72/46/c 82/48/c

Sarajevo 81/55/t 83/58/t

Seoul 86/71/pc 85/70/pc

Shanghai 98/84/pc 97/82/pc

Singapore 87/79/t 86/79/t

Stockholm 77/56/pc 78/58/pc

Sydney 60/55/sh 59/51/sh

Taipei City 93/78/t 95/79/s

Tehran 95/73/s 94/75/s

Tokyo 82/72/pc 82/76/c

Toronto 75/64/pc 75/63/sh

Vienna 83/65/t 83/66/t

Warsaw 87/63/pc 89/64/pc

Today

Mostly cloudy,

shower

Tuesday

Mostly cloudy

Wednesday

T-storm

Thursday

Partly sunny

Friday

Mostly sunny

Saturday

Mostly sunny

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through 5 p.m.yesterday

Difference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: +2.7° yr. to date: +2.6°

High: Roswell, NM 108°

Low: Stanley, ID 30°

World

High: Khanaqin, Iraq 124°

Low: Summit Station, Greenland –24°

Weather map features for noon today.

WIND:ENE 8–16 mph

HUMIDITY:Moderate

CHNCE PRECIP:30%

FEELS*:76°

W:

H:

P:

FEELS:83°

ESE 7–14 mph

High

25%

W:

H:

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SSE 6–12 mph

High

55%

W:

H:

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WNW 6–12 mph

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SSW 6–12 mph

Moderate

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Partly sunny, with growing clouds

Partly sunny at times, with
increasing cloud cover by the
afternoon and isolated showers
developing, mainly toward Southern
Maryland. Highs will top out in the
mid- to upper 70s with an east-northeast wind at
10 mph. Scattered showers increase in coverage
at night with lows in the mid- to upper 60s.

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D.C.’s school gardens thrive, feeding appetites for learning and fresh produce

MARVIN JOSEPH/THE WASHINGTON POST

Sara Carnochan snips plants at Thurgood Marshall Academy,

where a school garden is maintained during the summer break.

 


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