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Students receive a farm-fresh education at Durham Public Schools’ outdoor agricultural learning center
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Meg Hamilton, Indigo Hamilton-Dunsmore, 2, Sarah Dunsmore, and August Hamilton-Dunsmore, 2, visit the chicken coop.
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undreds of honeybees bustled toand-fro across three painted hives, while lone sentries went buzzing off to hunt nectar amid rows of squash blossoms and patches of wildflowers. Across the garden, families danced while Pierce Freelon riffed to melodic beats from the porch-turned-stage attached to The Hub Farm’s red barn. The fundraising concert – which also included a performance by XOXOK – fell in late June, a handful of days past the end of an academic year, during which The Hub hosted more than 2,530 Durham Public Schools students in its immersive outdoor learning programs. A few weeks later, the 30-acre educational farm and forest between