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Every year, students from PS 15 in Red Hook, grow vegetables at Added Value, a community farm in their Brooklyn neighborhood, then serve a giant salad to their entire school.

One of the farm’s employees, Kimberly Vargas, made this video about the school’s relationship with the farm as part of a contest sponsored by the National Farm to School Network. Vargas has been working at Added Value for five years, since she was a 15-year-old Crown Heights high school student, according to a 2008 New York Times story about the farm.

Vote for Vargas’s video here. (Via Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn)