BEAM, Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry, partnered with the school to transform an overgrow space on the school’s campus into a garden filled with vegetable boxes.
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The school received funding from the USDA’s Farm-to-School Grant Program, which benefits schools located in food deserts. Volunteer Victoria Miller was instructing students when News4JAX visited about pruning some of the vegetables that are now sprouting from the soil. Principal Aaron Lakatos said the opportunity to work in the garden and watch vegetables grow is providing 6th-grade students an opportunity to learn through hands-on teaching.
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