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Montana farm school plans include autistic kids

January 6, 2013 /

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The seed for Sherry Lewis-Peterson’s farm-based school has been germinating for quite a while.

It’s time now, she says, to make it grow.

Lewis-Peterson has formed a nonprofit organization called Farming for the Future Academy, with the goal of establishing a 5-acre working farm and school that would feature an educational program for children with autism and other learning disabilities.

"We want it to be open to everyone, not just for autistic children," she said.

Lynnette Hintze

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