"While reading 'In the Garden with Dr. Carver', with a third grade class, we talked about cotton and how it makes our clothes, and about the useful products Carver had made from peanuts and sweet potatoes. All of a sudden, one little boy waved his hand impatiently and said, 'Wait, so all these things that we invent and use and stuff... we like grow them, in the ground?' BINGO!"--Food Corps service member Melissa Tingling














