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Speaker 1: Watertown Harvest's freight farm has more than a dozen types

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Speaker 1: of produce hanging from the shelves, and these seniors are

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Speaker 1: getting their hands dirty.

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Speaker 2: You learn a new skill that not a lot of

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Speaker 2: people get to have in their lives, and it's really

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Speaker 2: important that you know where your food comes from, being

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Speaker 2: able to grow your own food.

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Speaker 1: Ago Banana, tell me this is just the beginning for

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Speaker 1: the freight farm, which can grow about two acres worth

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Speaker 1: of produce at max capacity.

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Speaker 3: We're going to be selling it to the schools, and

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Speaker 3: then from the schools as someone who's going to go

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Speaker 3: back to us, we're going to buy more seeds, and

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Speaker 3: then we're going to grow more and that's going to

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Speaker 3: keep going over and over.

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Speaker 1: After a tour of the farm, Secretary of Education Doctor

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Speaker 1: Patrick Tutwiler announced new grants for other schools to get

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Speaker 1: in on the gardening.

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Speaker 4: These new grantees with that one point two million dollar investment,

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Speaker 4: join more than sixty districts already participating in Mass Fresh,

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Speaker 4: which is reaching over two hundred thousand students with meaningful

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Speaker 4: farm food and stem based education from Watertown.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jared Brosnan, WBZ Boston's Snows Radio