Bradner Gardens Park Contact: Emily Bishton vonbemil@aol.com Becka Warren tilth@speakeasy.org Bradner Home Map of Bradner  Located in the heart of the park, literally and figuratively, is the fun and educational Children's Garden, a semi-circle of three plant beds swooping around the open-air pavilion. Under the guidance of Master Gardeners and Seattle Tilth, children and adult volunteers will grow vegetables organically as a generous gift to local food banks. Visitors will ramble amid an alphabetical array of edible perennials, herbs, fruit trees and annuals in the A-Z Garden. They will wander through the garden on "wiggle-waggle" paths of stepping stones, designed and created by kids. Bearing environmental messages and employing the lesson of resource conservation, the unique stepping stones are kid-made mosaics of "sparkly, fancy" tumbled, recycled glass set in concrete shapes. Each stepping stone bears one word of a short message that is fun for little feet to follow, like "Worms are wonderful" and "Compost is cool." At the letter X, children will use magnifiers to eXamine what is going on in the soil, including comparing the original soil found at the site to improved soil that has been built up with compost and cover crops. Kids can spy itty-bitty bugs, worms and other beneficials, and view the science of decomposition close up. Even though the Children's Garden is still a work in progress, participating in the early stages of this project is a wonderful way to excite urban kids about gardening and community.             New arrival. The Children's Food Bank Sign!