04/30/2025
As the school year comes rapidly to an end, our big adventure into gardening has provided our biggest and best lessons this year.
As gardening novice, we researched growing food from seed and why it’s important and how it could possibly help combat the rising cost of food.
Here we are, just 2.5 weeks before school ends, and we are just now getting our beds up.
One student said, “It’s almost the end of the year Mrs. Lumpkin, why are we still doing this?”
Fair question!
Me: “Because our adventure into gardening is like life. Many similarities that I personally experience and similarities that you are sure to face in your life- you don’t succeed sometimes.”
You see we failed!
We started in time, we did the research. We were able to get donations for some of our bigger items.
But our seedlings grew, but they grew too fast. Some didn’t grow at all.
We researched some more and was able to save some of our seedlings by replanting them and giving them nutrients, but we ran into spring break.
Our students took them home. They didn’t maintain the proper care. They died!
Life is like this process we experienced. Sometimes things die. Sometimes we fail. 
Sometimes we don’t know enough, sometimes it’s not our fault amd sometimes it is.
We could give up or we can keep trying. We can abandon our project, our dreams and aspirations.
OR!
We can keep trying. We can start over. We can stay committed to what we sat out to do.
At triumph, that is the biggest lesson that we want to leave our students with. No matter the circumstance, no matter the reason for things not going our way, we simply take what we learned, reapply it and continue on the mission.
In the words of an urban saying, “We got to see it through my boy.”


