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Students in Rebekah Shyloski s class work on some raised beds behind the Greenwood School in Dorchester. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
Most of the Sarah Greenwood School in Dorchester s Grove Hall neighborhood is surrounded by cement, with four-square courts and some basketball hoops. The corner of its block is occupied by the crumbling facade of a former church which occasionally sheds trash, even a knife and syringes, into the schoolyard.
Then, in between the two, on a narrow stretch of grass is the school s new garden plot. Each week, it plays host to rotating groups of students from across the school s eight grades, for the moment weeding, tilling and looking at things up close.