Former School Administrator Promotes Growth, School Gardens Through Non-Profit

By Sharon Chin, CBS San Francisco:

OAKLAND (KPIX) — A former school administrator cultivates a vision for healthy people and a healthy community with her work through an East Bay non-profit organization.

Wanda Stewart recalls how an apple tree took root at Hoover Elementary School in West Oakland. Kids would drop seeds from the apples in their lunch onto the ground.

As executive director of Common Vision, Stewart oversees a dozen East Bay school partnerships that teach thousands of students the basics of fruit and vegetable gardening.

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