[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]‘We help families have healthy treats and snacks,” 10-year-old Noah Wilcox said.
Potatoes were going to been part of the crop this year, after volunteers planted seed potatoes in a big tub over the past weekend.But by Monday morning, the tub had been stolen from the garden.“This wasn’t the first vegetable theft we’ve had,” Bowcroft School garden coordinator Kerry Wilcox said. “In the past three years we’ve had people harvest big patches of carrots, greens, squash.”Kerry Wilcox believes desperation brought on the by the COVID-19 pandemic may have been a factor in the theft. “We are seeing record numbers of children collecting lunches from our teachers — people who are.