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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Vol. 7 No. 8

PLANTING MORE THAN SEEDS

Edible school gardens teach kids about nutrition, agriculture By Laura Katauskas Staff Reporter

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Cassandra Corona, Kevin Collazos, Juan Flores, Cecilia Quiroz, and Teja Wellington dig through the underground garden looking for potatoes and broccoli.

ike the tomato vine swollen with fruit, so are the ideas spurred into educators and students alike thanks to a new edible garden planted at J.R.Tibbott Elementary School, one of the first Valley View schools to pilot the program. The Valley View School District Nutrition Services Department has funded an edible school garden at both Tibbott and Jane Addams Middle School last school year as its pilot sites. The program, simple in nature but vast in opportunity, mainly began with the idea to produce food the school could then use in its own cafeteria.The program has become so successful that Valley View encouraged all See SEEDS, page 4


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