
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and John C. Fremont High School students hold a beet grown in the school’s Gardening Apprenticeship Program plot on the campus south of downtown Los Angeles Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. Murthy visited the partnership between community organizations and the high school to support healthy initiatives in neighborhoods starved for fresh produce and grappling with childhood obesity. Students involved in the 12-week after-school gardening apprenticeship program learn to grow food and cook healthy dishes, pulling from kumquat and lime trees and planters filled with potatoes, peas and beets.(AP Photo/Nick Ut)