L.A. Students Grow Food at School
Los Angeles — Elizabeth Castro had never tasted beets or kumquats before she joined an after-school gardening program at her inner-city Los Angeles high school. Now, the 15-year-old helps grow the produce on campus in an urban neighborhood filled with auto shops and fast food restaurants — and she’s taken samples for her family to try. “Many things that I experienced here, I had never experienced before,” Castro told U.S. Surgeon...
