New Article from the Waco Tribune-Herald

Waco students learn about food production at World Hunger Relief

Tennyson Middle School student Austin Lyon never thought about where his food came from before.

The 13-year-old never realized that vegetables were much cheaper to plant than they are to buy in the grocery store.

And he had no idea that planting and harvesting his own food could actually be fun.

Lyon is one of about 15 Tennyson and Brazos middle school students who go to World Hunger Relief in Elm Mott once a week as part of the Communities In Schools of the Heart of Texas after-school program.

The program works with 30 community agencies, including World Hunger Relief, that are designed to support students’ emotional, social, physical and intellectual development.

“It gets them outside their boxes,” said Sara Karnes, an AmeriCorps member who works with Communities In Schools.

On a rainy Wednesday, the students sat around a long table, planting seeds of romaine lettuce and soybeans in trays.

The students will take a portion of the vegetables home with them, and the remaining harvest will be taken to Baylor University’s Campus Kitchens, in which food from the school’s dining halls is rescued and served to the hungry in Waco.

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