School garden yields more crops than imagined- Review Journal

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At Walter Bracken STEAM Academy, they still teach the three Rs: radishes, rhubarb and rutabagas.

The school’s garden has yielded such a bumper crop that it began selling herbs and vegetables to boutique restaurants.

The magnet elementary school at 1200 N. 27th St. adds arts to the science, technology, engineering and math (STEAM) typically associated with such curriculums. For the last three years, the school has taught some of those principles through gardening.

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