CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. - The Barack Obama School of Leadership and STEM in Chicago Heights is turning the soil into a syllabus .

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Students are selling produce and schooling the neighborhood on how to flip a seed into value.

"Here's the watermelon right here," said Logan Jamison, a student at the school. "Oh, that's cracked open, that's cracked open. Oh man, that could have been real good."

Logan reads the field like a playbook. A watermelon cracked open shows the cost of time and sun.

The kids turn dirt into value and value into lessons you can carry home in a bag.

"Yeah, this is, wow. We have really big banana peppers," Logan said.

"I've grown a variety of things from banana peppers, green tomatoes, and zucchini," said Keanna, a 6th grade student.

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