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SEED FOLKS Jacob Oteman, period 2

The book Seedfolk is a about a community coming together. Although all of the garden members are nice and friendly they run into some issues. They have some “area” problems. Unknown people are stealing vegetables, dumping garbage in the lot, and water transportation was a big issue.

Some people steal things, especially when it’s out in the open with nobody watching it. When the people finally had enough they hired a young boy to watch over the garden at night. Curtis hires a teenage boy to watch over Lateesha’s tomatoes. This boy stayed in the corn where no one could see him. After he stops one thief no more came. That takes care of that problem.



Before Kim started this garden the lot looked like the local dump. However, as more people came to plant stuff, the garbage went down. But this wasn’t good enough for Leona. Her first step she called the city but they wouldn’t acknowledge her. That’s when it got personal. She marched down to city hall and gave them a piece of her mind. Son enough the local inmates where cleaning up the lot.

These people have been struggling with bringing water back and forth. So Sam had the idea to have a contest to see who could have the best idea on how to get water into the garden. With the help of a young girl they finally decided to put garbage cans in the garden. The idea was when it rained the garbage cans would fill with water giving the gardeners easy access to water. This worked well as long as they had rain every now and again.

Even though none of the gardeners knew each other well, this garden brought hem all together. At the end it turns out friends helping friends. No one will come out hating each other after this is all said and done.