We have a small garden behind our classroom at school. We have grown many medicinal plants, bushes and trees in the small garden. It has ginger, kohomba, aloe vera, turmeric and many other herbal plants as well. We water them every morning on school days. We remove weeds and then sweep our garden. Our parents also help us to keep it. We have made
a fence around our herbal garden to protect it. Our teachers always encourage us.
When we harvest in our herbal garden, we sell the produce and help needy people. Sometimes we buy things for the school.
The teachers give us some herbs to take home.
Not only the students from my class, but also other students in the school also visit our small herbal garden. When we have visitors to the school, our principal proudly shows our garden to them.
Our small herbal garden won the first place in Southern Province competition for gardening. We were so happy on that day.
Herbs make our body healthy. My family also has a herbal garden at home.
Samadhi Liyoni
Grade 5 B
MR/ Polwaththa Primary School,
Weligama.