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Hurley students reap fall harvest

By ZACHARY MARANO

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HURLEY - Fifth graders at Hurley School District completed a project they started before summer vacation on Wednesday. The students harvested vegetables that they planted in the school garden last spring as fourth graders.

The classes harvested the potatoes, onions and carrots that they planted in the garden at the end of the 2020-2021 school year. Before they started digging, they circled up for a lesson on how to harvest the vegetables and a show-and-tell of some vegetables and fruit.

The students were led by FoodWIse educators with Extension I...