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    From left: Students like Olivia Fleming, 10, a 5th grader at St. Patrick, Jermaine Whittaker, 10, a 5th grader at Brookstone School, Ebony Moser (holding watermelon) and Jasmine Kirkpatrick, both 10 and 5th graders at Brookstone School pose proudly for photos with vegetables they helped grow. JOHN D. SIMMONS - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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    It is time to harvest the vegetables from the student community garden for students . From left: Sara Santos, 10, a Brookstone School 5th grader, Matt Halmrast, 11 and Michael Smith, 10, St. Patrick fifth graders. JOHN D. SIMMONS - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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    Students begin to harvest vegetables from the community garden jointly grown by Brookstone School and St. Patrick. From left, Dominque Porter, 10, a Brookstone 5th grader, plucks the vine from a watermelon, Don Larson, headmaster of Brookstone School, Ebony Moser, 10, ZaCaria Williams, 10, both Brookstone 5th graders, Marc Jacksina, executive chef at Halcyon Flavors From the Earth, Blair Farris, garden coordinator, and Jack Morgan, 10, a 5th grader at St. Patrick. JOHN D. SIMMONS - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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    From left: Jamaury Linen, 10, a Brookstone 5th grader, Michael Smith, 10, and Matt Halmrast, 11, 5th graders at St. Patrick, pick vegetables in a community garden shared by both schools. JOHN D. SIMMONS - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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    After being awarded a Front Porch Grant, families and elementary students from Saint Patrick Catholic School and Brookstone Schools designed and planted flower beds and six raised beds of fruits and vegetables in the community garden located at Brookstone Schools. JOHN D. SIMMONS - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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    Marc Jacksina, executive chef at Halcyon Flavors From the Earth, thumps a watermelon harvested from the student community garden to test its ripeness with Ameer Means, 10, a 5th grader at Brookstone School. JOHN D. SIMMONS - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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    Marc Jacksina, executive chef at Halcyon Flavors From the Earth, uses a blow torch to melt mozarella cheese onto baguettes at Brookstone School. JOHN D. SIMMONS - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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    Terryn DeRosier, 11, a 6th grader at Brookstone School and Sean McAvoy, 11, a 5th grader at St. Patrick, both take a swig of gazpacho made with the vegetables the students helped grow in their community garden. JOHN D. SIMMONS - jsimmons@charlotteobserver.com
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