In This Food Desert, Kids Learn to Farm Veggies—Out of the Back of a Truck

‘“Has anybody heard of rainbow chard?” Larry Moore asked a group of elementary school children.
No one answered.
“What about this?” Moore asked again, pointing to green leaves emerging from the dirt, their orange base peeking through the brown soil.
“That’s a carrot!” several young voices called out.
But this carrot wasn’t growing in the ground or a pot. It was growing in the bed of a red pickup truck, a garden on wheels known as the Louisville Truck Farm.’
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