On the busy corner of Roxbury & 35th street our school garden thrives, filled with tomatoes, cucumbers, kale, peas, and carrots. This garden is doing more than just providing our AP Environmental Science class with an educational opportunity; it’s helping to solve a bigger problem known as food deserts. Urban food deserts are areas where it’s hard to find affordable fresh produce, where there are no large grocery stores and supermarkets, and instead, neighborhoods are filled with convenience stores and fast-food restaurants that don’t benefit the low-income communities around us. In our school garden we are growing tomatoes, snap peas, kale, cucumbers and carrots. We have our crops organized into…