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PHOTO: Eating what you sow:

Normandeau School students tuck into veggies grown in their own schoolyard
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It was the perfect weather for Soup Day at Normandeau School on Tuesday.

Although the wintry temperatures made soup a good lunchtime choice, it also tasted better because it was made from vegetables grown by the students in their school yard.

Grade 2 teacher Janelle Van Tetering said the veggies were harvested a week ago — in the nick of time before an early snowfall.

The garden project teaches kids how to grow their own food, and then how to help prepare it for the soup pot.

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It was a good day for hearty vegetable soup: Grade 2 student Hunter Lowry enjoyed his broth, made from vegetables grown in the Normandeau School yard. The garden had been planted by students last spring. (Photo by LANA MICHELIN/Advocate staff).
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