This article was originally published in Maryland Matters.
On a cool spring day recently, the 1-acre farm A. Mario Loiederman Middle School in Wheaton buzzed with activity.
In the lower field educational garden, students in the afterschool farm club are assigned their tasks, first to check on the seedlings and then to shovel and spread woodchips along paths in the upper larger production plot. They do this alongside a team of high school Department of Recreation TeenWorks interns who are crafting a wooden cover for the compost bin…