Students at Discovery High School on the Walton campus were treated to a healthy meal of braised collard greens with tomatillo salsa on Tuesday.
The food was grown from seed, starting in the classroom of teacher Steve Ritz (center of photo) and grown on vertical gardens. Two weeks earlier, Ritz’s students held a full-fledged farmers market in their classroom where they sold tomatoes, greens, eggplants, basil, sweet peppers and other produce.
The produce was planted by Ritz’s kids in the spring and then transplanted to a small farm in North White Plains where it was cared for by autistic youth.
It’s all part of Ritz’s plan to empower students and promote healthy eating in the city’s unhealthiest borough.
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