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NORWAY The Alan Day Community Garden is a much busier place this summer with the return of an active agriculture education program for children and teens.
This year the Youth Leadership Program is being managed by AmeriCorps Vista Coordinator Pratt Olsen of Bethel and Reed Tinsley, Alan Day’s youth leadership coordinator.
Pratt Olsen shows kids the finer points of making pizza dough at the Alan Day Community Garden last Friday.
Nicole Carter / Advertiser Democrat
Olsen and two of the young participants, Ben Langelier, 8, and Ben Cummings, 13, both of Norway, were busy in the kitchen preparing pizza dough last Friday morning. That evening, pizza would be baked in an outdoor oven and served during the farmers’ market that runs from 5 to 8 p.m.