The Best or the Wurst

Students in a cooking class for middle schoolers at Cedar Circle Farm in East Thetford, Vt., try sauerkraut served by education program assistant Andie Hessian, left, after preparing a batch of their own for fermentation Wednesday, May 31, 2017. The class also prepared a batch of refrigerator pickled vegetables, and will taste them during next week's class. They will finish their six week course by making strawberry short cake with berries harvested at the farm. The students, from left, are Ian Presti-Hodgson, 13, of Hanover, Valentina Markov, 11, of Norwich, Draven Kendall, 11, of Thetford, Jasmine Dunham, 10, of Thetford, and Alicia Sanyal, 13, of Hanover. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.