Green thumbs

Participants in the Kids Growing Food program pose in their garden with some of their harvest at Newfield Elementary School. They are, counter clockwise from far left, third-graders Megan Pakkala, Cody McLaughlin, Bridget Lanning and Korin Hanley, and Mara Snedden, a senior at Trumansburg High School, and Dan Beardsley, a senior at South Seneca High School. Administered by New York Agriculture in the Classroom at Cornell, Kids Growing Food is a hands-on garden project that helps elementary schools throughout the state initiate or maintain food gardens, and it pairs older children with younger children in the growing and harvesting of the gardens. Frank DiMeo/University Photography