Logan Tow used the smaller pair of scissors to harvest lettuce for the cafeteria salad bar.
Standing in front of nine fourth graders and a lettuce patch, Christina Sargent began her instructions: "They are tools, not toys," she said, signaling to a pair of garden scissors.
"May I please use the big, fat scissors?" asked one fourth grader, who took a black pair and began snipping lettuce from the elementary school garden in Petersburg.
It was close to noon on Wednesday, the middle of National School Lunch Week, and K-5th graders were about to participate in "Harvest Soup Day."
They had been growing beans, peas, potatoes, carrots and onions in the garden behind the school all year. The...
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