It may look like just another lunch at Hiawatha Elementary School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, but these children are part of The People’s Garden School Pilot Project. The students at Hiawatha Elementary are among 4,000 youth in 57 schools in Iowa, Arkansas, New York, and Washington participating in Healthy Gardens, Healthy Youth (HGHY), a project that will assess how school gardens influence students’ fruit and vegetable consumption. – See more at: http://blogs.usda.gov/2011/12/23/healthy-gardens-healthy-youth-school-pilot-program/#sthash.MrdHMAm3.dpuf
