In the rows of basil, the young farmers with the Missoula Youth Harvest Project don’t even know they’re in therapy.
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Skyler Villwock popped the pepper into his mouth in a flash – a hot flash. The teen became inquisitive after his face reddened, as it was a hot pepper, and it burned.
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Skyler Villwock was bullied at a traditional high school for his weight and his speech impediment.
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The panel truck named “Big Red” backed up to the barn on the PEAS Farm, its rear doors open wide to receive a bounty of vegetables.
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In the beginning, Karrina Campos didn’t look like a farmer at all, not in her shiny black boots and snug jeans.
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Hannah Ellison worked in the Youth Harvest Project of Garden City Harvest in 2006. This year, she returned to the farm to do an internship as part of her University of Washington studies in Law, Societies and Justice.
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On days the Mobile Market crew didn’t need as much help, Dave Renn liked to watch the Youth Harvest Project workers in action — and listen to customers rave about the teenagers.
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Most of Kim Olsen’s seventh-grade Spanish class at Meadow Hill Middle School had never tasted arugula until they picked the savory greens they have growing in cold frames just south of the school Monday morning.
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