Late at night on August 30/September 1st, the Foothills Learning Garden was vandalized. Ten pumpkins were stolen
off the vines and smashed in the amphitheater near the garden. A few
garden tools were also taken from the garden and scattered on the
playing field next to the school.
The pumpkins that
were stolen and destroyed were slated to be used in a garden fundraiser
on October 3rd and in our classrooms for activities like seed counting,
weighing, and measuring. If you are the parent of a teen in our
neighborhood, we would appreciate it if you could bring up this topic
with your child in hopes of either finding out who did it (so that they
can reimburse the garden for the pumpkins they stole) or, at least,
reminding them that such behavior is rude, unkind, immature, and
unacceptable in our community.
While we will be changing the
combinations on the locks to the garden, we know that a 6 foot fence is
not enough to keep out a determined vandal. We appreciate your help
keeping an eye on the garden and reporting any suspicious activity to us
at foothillsgarden(at)gmail.com.
For now, we have removed the
remaining ripe pumpkins for safekeeping, but we'd like to be able to
leave them in the garden in the future...there is nothing more fun for a
kindergartener than discovering an orange pumpkin on the vine. That is
the essence of why we created the garden. Unfortunately, the vandals
have taken away that joy for this season.
Thank you for your continued support of the Foothills Learning Garden.
