Tallahassee Students Finally Taste Harvest from School Garden
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TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) - Local students finally got a chance to sample their hard work, but instead of tasting the fruits of their labor, they got to taste their homegrown vegetables.The Ghazvini Success Academy teamed up with Farming the Future to build a school garden where students grew black eyed peas that they were able to sample for lunch on Tuesday. The "Garden to Cafeteria" program was created to give students access to better nutrition because those students with better nutrition are proven to perform better in academics. The school also said that the program allows kids to engage in STEM careers and agriculture.
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TRANSCRIPT:
"Good Tuesday evening everyone. I'm Paulo Salazar. Gaspini Success Academy teamed up with the Farming the Future to build a school garden from there. They rolled out the garden to cafeteria program which mimics the farm to table concept. The program shows students with access to better nutrition are proven to better perform in schools. Now it also allows kids to engage in STEM and agriculture.
'STEM programs have to be hands-on for the kids to learn it. Without being hands-on, it's just the book learning and that's what we're trying to get away from in education today. Some of the kids don't get the vegetables, don't eat vegetables every day, for a lot of different reasons, but they just need we just they need to get their hands down there and they need to see the process from the beginning to the end and that's what we're trying to provide here.' As for the menu it was black eyed peas. Yum!"
