Students at the Robert L. Ford School in Lynn spend time in the garden working with members from newly launched national service organization FoodCorps, which was formed to fight the childhood obesity epidemic. They are learning to love vegetables, playing with worms, examining things under microscopes, and in the process coming to understand the importance of good nutrition. Here’s what a group of fourth- and fifth-graders think about the experience, in their own words.
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