A bountiful harvest for Riverside School
A group of Grade 8 students spent the afternoon pulling beets, carrots and potatoes from the ground.
They were from Riverside Community School and were harvesting their annual vegetable crop. It’s a program the school has had for years, the last three of which have been in partnership the Provincial Correctional Center.
The vegetables that didn’t get eaten while the kids worked will all go back to Riverside School where they will be used in the snack program.
“The (students) get an appreciation for things growing naturally and where food actually comes from. A lot of people don’t ever really have an awareness of that,” said Kim Jones, vice principal at Riverside.