The Boyd County Extension Agent for Horticulture partnered with the NEP Specialist in Boyd County on a program to teach headstart and first graders about how to raise their own vegetables.  This was a lesson that followed the 6 week program they had with Organ Annie about how healthy eating affects our major organs.  Leaf lettuce was the crop chosen for this lesson so that the kids would see a pretty quick result from planting seeds.  The horticulture agent went into each classroom that had the Organ Annie lesson and taught the kids about plants and how they grow and then each child planted lettuce seeds in their own flower pot which they left in the classroom to observe how quick the seeds germinated and started to grow.  Each student was given their own growth chart to fill in each week and a coloring book of different kinds of vegetables.  One kindergarten student was so excited about this program that she encouraged her parents to build her a small raised bed so that she could grow her very own vegetables.  She has now raised peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, and lettuce for her family to have at their meals at home and has already told her parents that next year she wants a bigger garden to raise more vegetables in.