Food as power

One of her teachers encouraged Teresa Jimenez to work in the school garden, as a way of motivating her to show up at school.  Growing vegetables had an effect that surprised her. “Whenever I am experiencing stress, I need to let it out in a physical form. What better way than to do gardening instead of doing something negative with all that energy we carry around sometimes?”  A youth comes alive in the garden, in a story on Richmond Pulse.