Source: Gardening project benefits Episcopal | Southside | The Advocate — Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Growing lettuce is harder than Eden Guirard realized, the Episcopal fifth-grader said Feb. 5, standing in front of lush, green heads of varying sizes growing in a hydroponic system she and classmates Joshua Gregoire and Crawford Grigsby constructed.

Their teacher, Sonny James, guided them as part of a fifth-grade science class project.

A lot of things went wrong before they figured it out, Guirard said.

But it was the successes that brought the students before the Episcopal High student body Feb. 6, presenting their results in a presentation in the school’s Visual and Performing Arts Center […]

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