ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo.Gloucester Daily Times. Gloucester: FoodCorps and CitySprouts hosted "Pickle Pioneer" day at Veterans Memorial Elementary School in mid-February. The kindergarten class taught by Janet Allen actually made pickles out of cucumbers and onions. Sampling them, from front to back are: Brigitte Lawson, Wilson Ortiz and Abigail Doucette. Brigitte wasn't sure she liked their taste.

"Watching students doing unusual hands-on learning activities at school in their classrooms is one of my favorite things to photograph for the newspaper. I am constantly in search of these opportunities; and when I heard that children in one class at Veterans Memorial Elementary School in Gloucester were learning how to make pickles together, I made it my business to be there. Knowing that some kids have picky taste buds, I was curious about their reactions to the taste of their freshly made pickles."

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