Richmond Times Dispatch – When a Farm is Your Classroom

Farming, weeding and feeding the animals: Charles City County alternative high school sparks learning in non-traditional ways

The banter was typical teenspeak – a blend of sarcasm, jilted wit and an aloofness that comes with maturity levels that lie somewhere south of young adulthood. On the tail end of a lunch break in the cool basement of Resi Connell’s Charles City County home, four students talked to and teased one another.