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校办农场建奇功 　　William Atkinson （Head Teacher）： Phoenix High School consists of some…a thousand 11- to 18-year-olds， and we’re situated on the White City Estate in West London. 　　Garry McMillan （Director of Development）： The farm started in 2007 and it was a piece of land that was left over from construction that we’d have done on the site. 　　William： We decided we would create this farm to educate our young people， but also to the wider adult community could actually get a much better sense of the journey that their food takes from the ground to the table. We want to divert as many of our parents and our young people away from junk food towards food which is nutritious. 　　Cath Knight （Community Food Grower）： We’ve got lots of potatoes， onions， carrots， peas， beans. We grow pumpkins and squashes， tomatoes， 1）aubergines， cucumbers， lots of lovely salads， chilis， grapevines. We’ve got raspberries， blueberry bushes， medicinal herbs and 2）culinary herbs. We grow some edible flowers as well， which is interesting for the kids to learn about. We’ve also got some chickens and some rabbits， and we’ve just got a bee hive. 　　Garry： It is about giving inner city young people an experience they’d probably never ever had. Because of the area that we’re in you do find that a lot of young people don’t have pets， so they don’t know anything about animals. 　　Student A： All rabbits are quite fast ’cause they don’t like you holding them， but when you go quite slow and you’re calm， then it won’t be…it won’t get scared. 　　Student B： Put your hand under its legs and lean it on your other arm， then it won’t drop. 　　Cath： They love it！ They love getting their hands dirty. Their favorite things are watering， digging， … 　　Student B： Yesterday we came to the farm. We planted potatoes， and we’re gonna have a competition. Whoever gets the most weight in potatoes wins the prize. 　　Student A： We have a chicken place over there， and we take their eggs and try them and see how they taste. 　　Ca