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(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)

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(CHATTER)

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(MUSIC PLAYING)

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- They're coming out here
every week or every other week.

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This is part of their life.

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And it's really, really fun when
I hear from parents and teachers

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where they say to the child, "What's
your favorite part of school?"

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And they say, "Going to the garden."

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Does anybody know the name of this bean?

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- Rockwell.

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- Rockwell beans, yeah.

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- We're focusing on a lot of
science and math down here,

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and we've been using the garden to help
teach measurements, the metric system,

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and the customary system,
and the difference.

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- How will we be recording
our air temperature today?

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- Fahrenheit and Celsius.

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- We've got a choice on here.

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We have Fahrenheit and Celsius.

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What do scientists use?

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Yell it out if you know.

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- Celsius.

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- Celsius!

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Celsius!

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Yay!

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- Well it definitely makes
science more interesting, fun.

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I'm able to get kids outside
doing science instead

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of being in the classroom with
textbooks talking about science.

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It makes me want to come to work every day.

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- Having a teaching space that's real for
kids, having them grow their own food,

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be able to supply the food
bank and the cafeterias --

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it just evolved because it was right
place, right time, and exciting.

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(MUSIC PLAYING)

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- Hello, everybody!

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Hello, hello!

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Welcome, everybody.

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Welcome to the garden!

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- You too!

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- Oh yeah!

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- Hi, carrot.

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- Awesome!

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(CHATTER)

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- It combines the growing of
food that nourishes people

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with the educating of all ages of children.

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They're feeling the soil.

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We're looking at the rocks.

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We're looking at all the
different worms that we find.

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Rather than having the children just
come down here and get a lesson,

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they're helping us manage
and work on the farm.

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OK.

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Who would like to plant some dry beans?

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Here are some orcas and some Rockwells
that we're going to be growing.

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This bean does really, really
well on Whidbey Island.

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It doesn't mind cool soils,
and it matures really quickly.

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And it's been grown since the late 1800s,
and we're going to start growing it here.

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You're not going to put all
this compost in the trough, OK?

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Just put a little bit in.

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And then once you've added the compost
in, you're going to work it in, OK?

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Like that.

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We want that compost to
disappear into the soil.

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- Students are really excited about growing
plants and harvesting them and being

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able to eat what you've grown.

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Definitely, it's one of those
hands-on, minds-on kind of experiences.

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because they're having to think and
use their hands at the same time.

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- Take the bean and you just
place it in your furrow.

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Make sure they're about an inch and
a half down, three inches apart.

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Cover them up, give them a
little pat -- but not too hard.

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The second graders plant
potatoes in second grade,

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and then they harvest them in third grade.

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The third graders are studying
seeds, a lot about seeds.

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And so we have this marvelous scarlet
runner bean tee pee with these great...

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we call them magic beans.

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They say, "Why are they magic?"

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And I say, they're magic because
in this one seed is an entire life.

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And you put that seed in the
ground and it grows that big plant.

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Now, what could be more magic?

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OK, everybody.

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Let me show you what this looks like...

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- When we first started, I wasn't
sure what the garden was going to do.

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I thought it'd be pretty
good for primary grades.

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But I'm finding more and more that
it's more than just primary grades.

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It's everybody.

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There are kids in the
classroom that need to have...

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they have wiggles and
they need to move around,

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and this is a great way for them to get
out and learn something and not be worried

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about being tied to a chair.

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- Sometimes you can actually find worms.

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Because once last year, we found
an earthworm and it was huge.

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And it's fun, you could
play with it and stuff.

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- What do we need to grow a plant?

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What is the very first thing we have to do?

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What is that?

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- Put seeds in the ground.

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- Seeds in the ground, right.

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We have to put seeds in the ground.

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And where do we get those seeds?

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- From...

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stores.

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- We get them from a store.

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Where else could we...

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I think we might be able to see that.

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Should we go see some
flowers turning to pods?

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- Yay!

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- See if you can find pea pods forming.

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- I found some!

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- I found one!

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- I will pick this one.

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OK, now let's open this one up.

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- Can we eat some?

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- Let's see.

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That's a snow pea, and
these are called snap peas.

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We grew two different kinds of peas here.

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- Whoa!

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This is a big pea!

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- Not quite ready yet.

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In two weeks, there will
be so many peas here

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we can just eat to our heart's content.

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One of the fun things the kids
love here is coming to eat.

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It's a very important
part of our curriculum.

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So we always have fresh
veggies from the garden.

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- I have seen kids eat things that I don't
eat because I didn't like them growing up.

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But they're eating everything here.

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They're trying everything.

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(CHATTER)

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- Oh, you have a nice big one.

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Does anybody want some arugula?

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You like it?

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- I can handle spice.

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- No, I love it.

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I love it.

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I love it.

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- You... really?

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- You need to grow horseradish some time.

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- Bok choy is delicious.

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Here, try it.

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- Look what I found.

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(CHATTER)

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- Follow the flower down.

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Does everybody see the pods?

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Could everybody pick a kale pod?

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Pick a nice big fat kale pod.

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These kale plants are old, and we
need to plant other things here.

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So you know what you get to do?

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You get to pull these plants out.

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(CHATTER)

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- Cary, I got one!

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(CHATTER)

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- Every one of our teachers has
standards that they need to meet,

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and those standards include science,
social studies, English language arts,

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you name it -- even physical education.

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So the teachers have been working
with the garden coordinator

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to explain what standards need to be met,
and how can we do that in the garden.

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- She described them beans, because
they look like beans, don't they?

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- Each grade has a different theme,
and they're all interconnected.

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So first graders are
connecting with the life

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in the garden, the changes and the cycles.

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They're learning how to observe.

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Then in second grade, we're really looking
at the soils and how soil nourishes life.

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In the third grade, we're
looking at the diversity of life.

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Fourth grade, we're looking
at plant structures.

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- In the fifth grade curriculum, we
are studying ecosystems and habitats.

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It makes it real for them to get out and
look at it and study it and touch it,

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as opposed to getting in a book.

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- And would you please
hold up the tool you have

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that is going to help us measure rainfall.

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Hold it up.

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OK, Andrew's got it.

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Emma's got it.

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Right now, we're looking at
collecting real world data.

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So we're using measurement tools
-- the emphasis on STEM and science

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and engineering practices with
next generation science standards.

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Interesting research question.

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Why are there those
differences in temperature?

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Could it be human error, perhaps?

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- I'm trained as a scientist.

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And to me, science is discernment.

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It's observation.

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It's analyzing things.

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It's learning to see.

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So part of what I think is
so important is for children

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to have the wonder and joy of
exploring the natural world,

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but also to start to see things.

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This is the soil.

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And I've got it down three inches.

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I'm going to get one reading.

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Then all the way down so that
it's just resting on the surface,

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and that will get your depth.

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- Four and a half.

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- Yeah, four and a half.

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- So what does the S stand for?

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- Source.

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- Getting them outside really measuring
things, really observing, doing

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scientific practices for
real, again, is a lot more fun

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than talking about doing those things
or setting up something more contrived

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in the classroom.

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- 18 degrees.

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- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

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- So it's a challenge because we
have standards, we have curriculum,

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we have time challenges.

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I see 100 kids over the course of the day.

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(CRUNCHING AND RUSTLING)

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- For years, people in this community have
been wanting to serve school garden-grown

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produce to the school lunches.

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Our district contracts with Chartwells,
which is a huge food service corporation.

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They serve 2.6 million lunches a
day throughout the United States.

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Everyone in the business is
concerned about food safety.

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There are huge liability issues.

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So we fulfilled all the
requirements they had

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to assure themselves that we had
a program that had the highest

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standards of food and garden safety.

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- I mean, from the
fencing being up to making

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sure there was no other animals around.

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Making sure that everything that
was planted came from a safe spot.

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- So cherry tomatoes for you.

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- OK, perfect.

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They love these.

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- Yeah.

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So we have Romaine, broccoli.

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- This one just looks bigger.

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- We get anything that we can from them.

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So right now I think we still have bell
peppers, broccoli, carrots, lettuce,

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spinach, tomatoes.

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- The kids love it.

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When we put out salad that's from the garden
it's definitely gone by the end of the day.

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- As kids grow -- having been gardening from
a very young age and eating what they grow

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-- it's an amazing evolution.

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(CHATTER)

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(MUSIC PLAYING)

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- Try a little nibble of everything.

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- Oh, I love these onions!

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- My dad would like this big one.

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(WATER SPLASHING)

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- Yummy.

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- I think I got enough that I can carry.

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- They make garden tacos by taking huge
leaves of kale, pulling them off the plant

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and then putting carrots that we've
cut and tomatoes that we've cut,

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and then getting some lemon sorrel
and then adding some calendula.

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- Kale is yummy.

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- Yeah, I could eat that.

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- You're starting with five-year-olds.

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These are kids that are pretty influential.

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And they are out in that
garden making their kale tacos.

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I mean, as a kid, I did
not eat my vegetables.

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I had an aversion to vegetables
because they came in cans.

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It'll take time, but you got first
grade all the way through high school.

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I would love to see somebody follow
one of those kindergartners all the way

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and see what their eating habits
are when they're 18 years old.

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(CHATTER)

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- I got a ginormous bean!

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- You got a ginormous bean?

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Oh, look at this bean.

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Pick a big one.

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Good job.

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Let's taste it.

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Wow!

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As I've talked to many parents...

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one of them said, "Our
daughter came home and she

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wanted to have garden tacos for dinner."

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And so they had to go get the
ingredients for garden tacos, which

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meant buying kale and buying carrots
and buying cucumbers and buying

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tomatoes and chopping them all
up and putting them on the kale.

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(MUSIC PLAYING)

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- Just try a little bit.

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- You've got the kids out here on the farm.

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They're learning how to grow food, they're
learning all this curriculum stuff,

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they're loving to eat it.

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And you're delivering it to the cafeteria.

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And just that feeling of
happiness that people have --

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it's a huge community benefit.

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- Supporting the community,
preserving a rural way of life,

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encouraging economic development.

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All of those things are tied
up a bit in the garden project.

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Last year, we raised over $22,000
and the Goose Grocery matched it all.

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- This water's coming out very fast.

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- I'm an apprentice for the Community
Garden Leadership Training Program.

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We're learning how to grow food, how to
involve the community in growing food,

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how to set up irrigation, how to run
a productive worm bin, composting.

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- You've got these cucumbers right
here, they're cucumbers for lunch.

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- It's good for us to see how food
is produced and to take part in it,

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and that helps the kids
get an understanding.

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And also, it's good for them to know
that this stuff just doesn't magically

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appear in the fridge.

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(SAWING)

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- We are in the middle of
finishing a harvest shed.

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We call ourselves the Dream Team -- doing
construction projects, building the fences,

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basically doing the infrastructure
work which has to happen.

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(DRILLING)

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- There's pretty good northerly
winds that come through here.

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It's a big open area, so we
want to make sure that it holds.

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And once we get the roof on it,
then we're all happy campers

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and then we can go home
and get ready for winter.

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- This project would not be
but for the volunteers --

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volunteers building the picnic tables,
volunteers making sure harvest happens,

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that the food gets to the food bank.

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- A lot of this material -- the roofing,
the wood -- is volunteered also.

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So it's a followthrough on that.

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(CHATTER)

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- They're pulling beans
out and harvesting beans

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as a way of talking about nitrogen
and the pieces of the bean plant

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that produce nitrogen.

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- Can you see those
little aphids right there?

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- Yeah.

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- They are harvesting kale,
and looking on the kale

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to see if there's any aphids
or any disease or anything.

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And the good kale, they're
putting in a bag or a container

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to take to the Good Cheer Food Bank.

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- We going to give that to Good Cheer?

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- No.

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- Good Cheer only gets
really, really good leaves.

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- It lets them know other people
out there, and that other people

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can benefit from things that they do.

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- We're harvesting kale for kale salads,
fresh carrots, onions, tomatoes --

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a great year for tomatoes.

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Our Wednesday teams come in and
they wash fruit, they clean it,

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they portion it for
distribution on Thursdays

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to make sure that the children
who have lunches during the week

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have good food throughout the weekend.

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- Having students who really understand
what service is, understand how to garden,

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understand that part of what they're doing
is not only feeding themselves but feeding

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members of the community -- the
impact of what they're doing,

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it's hard to measure because
it's so broad and so long-term.

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(CHATTER)

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- I mean, these aren't
kids who are going to say,

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when they serve butternut squash
at the high school, "What is this?"

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These are kids who are
going to say, "I grew this

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and I actually developed
the recipe for it and I'm

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going to eat it, because it's delicious."

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- The freshness and the vitality we
see behind it, it is so much better.

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And the children can see actually where
their food comes from, which is important.

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Because when you ask somebody,
'Where does that come from?,"

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I'd say the majority of people don't
realize what it takes to grow a carrot.

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(CHATTER)

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- I like watching the plants
grow and seeing how they change.

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And I also like eating.

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- I thought it was fun digging up
the plants and harvesting them.

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And actually yesterday I got to help make
this, and I thought it was really cool.

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- The mashed potatoes are phenomenal.

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Kids grew all the food that's here.

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We worked with the Wind Kitchen to cook it.

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So this year, the fifth graders are
serving and they decorated the tables.

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The fourth graders are in charge of
all the signage and all the labeling.

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- I love the fresh taste of
carrots straight from the garden.

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It's really refreshing and... crunchy.

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- So Josephine helped with the
potatoes, and the kids helped harvest

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and actually prepare the food.

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And it's delicious.

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Better than ever before.

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(CHATTER)

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- It's delicious.

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I love it.

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Ask them.

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Is it good?

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Yeah?

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There you go.

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We live for Monday
afternoons for garden snacks.

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- Walk like a potato.

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Walk like a potato.

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- You mean like this?

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- You can see a potato
plant where you point at it.

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Point at your potato plant.

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- How many do you think are under there?

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- About 28 or more.

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- 28 or more.

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100.

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Any other guesses how many potatoes?

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Everyone put their hands on a plant.

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Pull really hard.

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(CHATTER)

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- Me too.

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- Oh.

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- Look how much I got.

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- I want to keep some of these.

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- ...and a really small potato.

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Did it make one potato?

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- No.

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- More potatoes?

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More than five potatoes?

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One little potato grew a lot of potatoes.

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(CHATTER)

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- Thank you so much for
helping us harvest these,

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because you are going to end up
being able to eat some of these

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and other kids in the school are
going to end up eating some of these.

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And you guys planted them.

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- My joy of teaching comes through seeing
kids get excited about science and the role

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that that plays in their lives.

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To me, it's worth maybe
the extra effort that it

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takes to develop a program like
this, but it's so well worth it.

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It just makes teaching a lot more fun.

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- Takes a lot of work to be able
to get it started, but it's work

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more than it is money.

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And sometimes people get caught up
in "Oh," you know, "it's too hard.

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We can't meet this or that standard."

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But you can.

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We did it.

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- Do you think other people
might want to grow this bean?

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How we teach critical thinking, how we
teach observation -- it's not overt.

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It's not explicit.

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It's incorporated in this
whole body experience.

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But at the end, kids really know
it because they've experienced it.

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They've done it.

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- Oh, yeah!

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- My carrot!

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(MUSIC PLAYING)

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- Did everybody get a carrot?

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- I got one.

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- I got two on accident!

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(CHATTER)

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(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)