Even in Philly, high school students learn farming

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — It was a crisp autumn morning, and W.B. Saul High was buzzing. And mooing. And barking, and baa-ing.

Swinging a gate closed to keep brown jersey cow Tinker safe in her pen, Saul senior Marcus Bonaparte motioned to the farm fields, greenhouse, orchard, and school buildings on the 150 acres around him — all in the middle of urban Philadelphia.

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