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For the younger children, these 25-minute sessions start with identifying things using English words, but it evolves to reading comprehension and cross-curricular lessons in mathematics and social studies, Tribble said.

Cunningham Elementary in southwest Austin already has its own farm, and now it’s getting a teaching kitchen as part of a cross-curricular culinary education initiative.

High schoolers integrate with tykes in cross-curricular programs, so the second-graders would go giddy whenever Tagovailoa would appear, Welch said.

“They need to know where our food comes from so they can eat and live healthier lives. It is cross-curricular, from social science to math to reading and writing. It is hands-on learning. The kids are able to see veins of the leafs under microscopes. I see kids measuring our flowerbeds and writing down their observations. It becomes a living textbook instead of memorization.”

Those lessons will be cross-curricular, tying gardening to other subjects like science, math and English.