Another #EmpathyDay poem – again from Be the Change, Poems to Help You Save the World, written with Matt Goodfellow and Roger Stevens, Macmillan.
9-year old Katie Stagliano brought home a tiny cabbage seedling as part of a school project, and tended it so well it became an enormous 40lb cabbage! She donated it to a soup kitchen where it fed 275 people. Katie decided to start vegetable gardens so that she could donate the produce to help people in need. Katie’s Krops now has 100 gardens across the US, helping feed people in need.
Feeding the World
One cabbage seedling,
with small stems bowed
and pale leaves furled,
given food and water
and love can grow
a heart to feed the world.
© Liz Brownlee
Image from Bayer CropScience UK by creative commons license and changed by removing the background.
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