Some vegetables almost seem designed for little hands-on discoveries. Corn is one of them. This week, our CSA box was full of color: celery, beets, tomatoes, cilantro, cucumbers, rainbow chard, bell peppers, carrots, corn, and yellow onions. When we looked at the corn, I decided to slow down before we cooked it and take a closer look. The rows of kernels made a simple opportunity to explore patterns, counting, structure, and how a plant stores its seeds. And then, of course,

Some vegetables are easy to overlook because we see them so often. Celery was one of those vegetables in our CSA box this week. It's familiar, simple, and usually something we chop up without thinking much about it, but when we slowed down and looked closely, celery gave us a surprisingly good opportunity to explore plant structure, water movement, and how plants transport water from one place to another. That's one of the things I love about seasonal learning. The vegetables