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Article: Sowing city seeds. (profile on Richard Taylor) (Earthkeepers)
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- American Forests
- Article date:
- September 1, 1992
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1992 American Forests. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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In his deep teacher's voice, Richard Taylor tells his students to get out their diaries and write down what they did today. "You planted seeds, you learned how to space them ..." he starts.
Notebooks open, and the room becomes quiet. Today is payday for these 11- to 14-year-olds, and if they act up, they know their pay will be docked.
"Although $25 a week doesn't seem like much, it's the first time these kids have ever had any real money," says Taylor, a horticulture teacher at Phelps Career School in Washington, DC. A Phelps instructor for the past 27 years, Taylor is the head horticulturist for the fledgling Washington, DC, Youth Tree Corps. This pilot program, ...
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