CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. (WLS) -- Some gardens in the south suburbs become instruments in education.

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The students at the Barrack Obama School of Leadership and STEM showed off the skills they learned at the school's horticulture program.

"This is actually my favorite class," student Epiphany Hawthorne said. "So every day, I go home and tell my sister about everything, about horticulture she'll be like what is horticulture and I'll be like you don't have its."

What started as an afterschool activity is now among curriculum options with five gardens.

"I'm trying new food, I tried recipes, like cucumber and tajin... oh that was good," Logan Jamison said.

On Wednesdays, the students host a farmers' market.

The students planted the se

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