Smell the Summer

One thing I've been working with for almost a year is the WashU garden, the Burning Kumquat. We grow vegetables and sell them at the North City Farmers' Market (during the summer) and on the WashU campus. We don't use chemicals, we have work day every week, and we plan events and talk to people. I like to talk about this a lot.
So if anyone's around, you should come rub our tomato plants and smell your hands. Then you should rub the gourd leaves, too. Walk past the herb bed with the basil forest, the thyme machine, and the fennel trap; enjoy their massive attack on your olfactory system. And if you, like most of us that work at the garden, have never seen an okra plant, hide under the enormous (if you're short) okra canopy. Beware of spiky squash vines. Let the beans twirl up the corn and nourish the soil that its roots cluth onto. Inhale the aubergine with your eyes.