Weisbrich lives in Round Rock, Texas, and she's a renter who insists on having a garden plot.

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One landowner offered up a large, unused plot of land for a garden and high school classes have come out to plant and harvest tomatoes, squash, potatoes and melons, Anderson said.

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But within just a few years, the program blossomed, and his Richmond Schoolyard Society now encompasses a 5, 000 square foot garden, where over 1, 500 kids each get a little plot of land to till, tend, harvest, and enjoy.

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It's a spot to arrange flowers, to cut herbs for drying and to plot and plan your garden.

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