Fifth grade students at Oak Forest Elementary School just love the sweet potato harvest.  It is the largest crop in the garden by weight and one of the first big crops of the year, so they are eager to get their hands in the ground. The harvest involves everyone:  some students pull out the vines while others haul the vines to the compost area where they are either chopped up with a mower to clipped into small pieces in the compost pile.  Other students wash,weight and sort potato and then bag them up to send them home.

Volunteer stalwarts Eric Vogl, Hal Opperman and Denton Langridge losses the soil around the potatoes so that the fifth graders can get their hands in the dirt and dig them out.