No leaf sits directly over the next, so that each can gather light without shading the others. The bean twines around the corn stalk, weaving itself between the leaves of corn, never interfering with their work.
How does a bean plant know to do this? What is the science behind it's structure deciding and intentionally moving in this way?
There is an earthy sexuality to a garden, and most of the students get drawn in to the revelation of fruit.
It's interesting how people view food so simply and almost inhumanely. They'd rather just see their food as a material with little depth. Once they make those genuine scientific connections that humans have to food, it feels gross. *We have no idea what we're eating and we don't really want to know. *