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Seeing Green

by rebeccak2
Published on: January 17, 2013
Categories: Made in Alaska
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Here’s a sweet story: students at Airport Heights Elementary School are growing basil. They’ve grown so much basil they’re selling it. Table 6, in midtown, started buying it this week to put in the soups and dinner specials.
“It is just an incredible product,” Alex Perez one of the owners of Table 6 said, “it’s beautiful, it’s greener than green. It’s fantastic.”
At the end of the year the students will use the money they raised to throw an amazing 6th grade graduation party–Table 6 will be the caterer.
A former teacher donated equipment to grow the basil, and the start up money to buy the seeds and other supplies came from a $500 grant from the Alaska Schools Foundation.
The school is using the basil growing venture as a real life economics lesson.
The students thought about growing flowers to sell to expensive, they found. Same problem for tomatoes.
“We would have had to charge $100 for each tomato,” 6th grade teacher Emily Becker said.
On a recent school day 6th grader Amaya Austin added added fertilizer to a 2 gallon bucket, which she poured over 3 month old sprouts.
“It smells really good,” Austin said.


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