Skyler Villwock was bullied at a traditional high school for his weight and his speech impediment.
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The panel truck named “Big Red” backed up to the barn on the PEAS Farm, its rear doors open wide to receive a bounty of vegetables.
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In the beginning, Karrina Campos didn’t look like a farmer at all, not in her shiny black boots and snug jeans.
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Hannah Ellison worked in the Youth Harvest Project of Garden City Harvest in 2006. This year, she returned to the farm to do an internship as part of her University of Washington studies in Law, Societies and Justice.
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On days the Mobile Market crew didn’t need as much help, Dave Renn liked to watch the Youth Harvest Project workers in action — and listen to customers rave about the teenagers.
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Most of Kim Olsen’s seventh-grade Spanish class at Meadow Hill Middle School had never tasted arugula until they picked the savory greens they have growing in cold frames just south of the school Monday morning.
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One day in July, Sierra Gehring fought in Caras Park with her boyfriend, and she spent the night in jail as a result. “I was so embarrassed,” Gehring said. “And then the next day, I came to work, and I was super down because me and my boyfriend weren’t doing very good.”
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In the mornings, Skyler Villwock would sit on the porch swing in front of the barn and look out over the fields of the PEAS Farm, then beyond them to the mountains.
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