It's harvest time in East Flatbush.
Back in February, the front yard at the High School for Public Service was mostly barren, with soggy grass and just a few trees.
Now, students have transformed it into a 10,000-square-foot vegetable farm that yields 500 pounds of organic produce each week.
Sixty varieties of vegetables grow in the garden at the old Wingate High School campus on Kingston Ave., including tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, peppers and corn.
"It's amazing how well things grow here," said student farmer Daysha Parker, 15, of Brownsville. "We eat the vegetables all day."
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