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[University of Georgia Fight Song]
>>Several children talking all at once about vegetables.
>>Dave Rusk: The intent is to, as their theme says,
“To Grow Good Kids.”
The intent is to teach children the basics of gardening and
hopefully they’ll be interested in gardening long term or in the
future when they get older, like me.
Rusk: We’ll take these big ones [Boy: Dude, dude]
over to see if someone wants to buy them.
But when they get big like that, they get very hot to the taste.
We’ll save that one.
The students have been maintaining the garden all summer; weeding it,
watering the plants, harvesting the vegetables and
actually setting up the produce stand at the library where we’ve
been selling them two days a week.
>>Boy: The yellowish looking ones.
>>Boy: Oh great, honeybees!
>>Girl: The banana peppers? >>Boy: The banana, yes.
>> Adult female customer: That's a dollar, right, for both?
>>Boy: Yes.
>>Girl: Do you want a bag?
>> Adult female customer: Yeah, that would be good.
>>Boy: There's a bag.
>> Adult female customer: Glad I’m getting some peppers.
Thank you very much.
>>Boys: Those are one of the things that you would normally eat.
>>Drew Ray: I like coming here because I wanted to know how to
grow things without killing them for my mom because
she has a black thumb and I have a green thumb.
So I came here so I could help her with it.
>>Adult female gardener: See all of them in here.
>>Rachel Hardegree: I wanted to learn more about gardening so
I could help my own garden.
The best part of this was definitely the picking and
the planting because it’s really fun to see what we
have grown and how big it is.
>>Rusk: The reason I do it is I like getting kids involved
in gardening and hopefully it will carry over to later years for them.
Plus, it’s a good way to interact with children and get them involved
in the community. They see the benefits of planting the crops and also taking
them all the way through to selling them to customers and getting the
reaction from the customers. They’re learning more than just growing the
vegetables; they’re also learning the retailing aspect of it as well.