Carrots and Tomatoes 101: More Schools Helping Children Grow, and Eat, Their Own Food

When Lynette Romney realized her three children were eating sub-par cafeteria food--rife with prepackaged products and low on fresh vegetables-- she looked to the fertile Spokane, Wash. lands around her for a solution. Between February and March, she organized a school garden program on five acres of district land between the three elementary, middle and high schools in the East Valley School District in Spokane. As of April, students in the schools’ botany classes were growing 14 beds of...