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 * Final correction, 10 December 2010. I have underlined the words to be eliminated from your translation and added some words in bold font.**
 * -- Molly Rogers**

Lucia Di Benedetto 30/11/2010

The headquarter**s** of Toyota in Kentucky has an enormous garden of tomatoes and courgettes. PepsiCo, a food giant specialized in junk foods such as Mountain Dew, Cheetos and Rise-A-Roni has created a corporate garden inside it**s grounds**, strictly organic and cultivated by the employees. To bring the employees' moral up, the American companies, who can't afford wage increases any more, have invented a new benefit : the __business__ **corporate** vegetable garden.

Nobody thought that the repeated appeals of the first lady Michelle Obama to convince the country to eat healthier, organic and local foods would __had__ **have [studiare: future in the past]** such great results. Until last year, in fact, the garden-mania involved only an elite groups of progressive companies such as Google, Yahoo and Sunset Magazine. They were all from Silicon Valley, where knowing how to make a tomato grow __up__ is as crucial as knowing how to program__me__ **[programme is British English for all kinds of programmes except computer programs]** a computer.

For several months, instead, hundrend of America companies have been giving the opportunity to their employees to be __a__ part-time farmers during working hours. People who work in a company with a vegetable garden take home kilos of free vegetables, **and** they can also taste the fruits of their labour at the work canteen. Tilling fields helps employees to keep themselves in shape.

But these aren't only the advantages. Sheila Golden, senior manager of PepsiCo and convinced farmer, said " Hoeing the land together, we want the employees to feel free from company hierarchies at last for some hours. In the vegetable garden we're all on the same level".

Corporate gardens

The headquarter of Toyota in Kentucky has an enormous garden of tomatos and courgettes. PepsiCo, a food giant specialized in junk foods such as Mountain Dew, Cheetos and Rise-A-Roni has created in his interior a corporate garden, strictly organic and coltivated by the employees. Bringing the employees' morale up, the American companies, who can't afford wage increases any more, have invented a new benefit : the business vegetable garden.

Nobody thought that the repeated appeals of the first lady Michelle Obama to convince the country to eat healthier, organic and local foods would had so great results. Untill last year, in fact, the garden-mania involved only an elite groups of progressives companies such as Google, Yahoo and Sunset Magazine. They were all of Silicon Valley, where knowing how to make a tomato is as crucial as knowing how to programm a computer.

For several months, instead, hundrends of America companies have been giving the opportunity to their employees to be a part-time farmers during working hours. People who work in a company with a vegetable garden take home kili of free vegetables, they can also taste the fruits of one's labour at work canteen. Tilling fields helps employees to keep themselves in shape.

But these aren't only the advantages. Sheila Golden, senior manager of PepsiCo and convinced farmer, said " Hoeing the land togrther, we want the employees to feel free from company hierarchies at last for some hours. In the vegetable garden we're all on the same level".

Lucia Di Benedetto

The headquarter of Toyota in Kentucky has an enormous garden of __tomatoes__ and courgettes. PepsiCo, a food giant specialized in junk foods such as Mountain Dew, Cheetos and Rise-A-Roni has created __in his interior__ a corporate garden, strictly organic and __cultivated__ by the employees. __Bringing the employees' morale up__, the American companies, who can't afford wage increases any more, have invented a new benefit : the business vegetable garden.
 * I have underlined some places that need your attention. The annotation "missing" means that something is missing from the translation.**
 * -- Molly, 18-11-2010**

Nobody thought that the repeated appeals of the first lady Michelle Obama to convince the country to eat healthier, organic and local foods would had __so__ great results. __Untill__ last year, in fact, the garden-mania involved only an elite groups of __progressive__ companies such as Google, Yahoo and Sunset Magazine. They were all __of__ Silicon Valley, where knowing how to make a tomato __missing__ is as crucial as knowing how to __programm__ a computer.

For several months, instead, __hundrends__ of America companies have been giving the opportunity to their employees to be __a__ part-time farmers during working hours. People who work in a company with a vegetable garden take home __kili__ of free vegetables, they can also taste the fruits of __one's__ labour at __missing__ work canteen. Tilling fields helps employees to keep themselves in shape.

But these aren't only the advantages. Sheila Golden, senior manager of PepsiCo and convinced farmer, said " Hoeing the land __together__, we want the employees to feel free from company hierarchies at last for some hours. In the vegetable garden we're all on the same level".

Lucia Di Benedetto 30/11/2010

The headquarter of Toyota in Kentucky has an enormous garden of tomatoes and courgettes. PepsiCo, a food giant specialized in junk foods such as Mountain Dew, Cheetos and Rise-A-Roni has created a corporate garden inside it, strictly organic and cultivated by the employees. To bring the employees' moral up, the American companies, who can't afford wage increases any more, have invented a new benefit : the business vegetable garden.

Nobody thought that the repeated appeals of the first lady Michelle Obama to convince the country to eat healthier, organic and local foods would had such great results. Until last year, in fact, the garden-mania involved only an elite groups of progressive companies such as Google, Yahoo and Sunset Magazine. They were all from Silicon Valley, where knowing how to make a tomato grow up is as crucial as knowing how to programme a computer.

For several months, instead, hundrend of America companies have been giving the opportunity to their employees to be __a__ part-time farmers during working hours. People who work in a company with a vegetable garden take home kilos of free vegetables, they can also taste the fruits of their labour at the work canteen. Tilling fields helps employees to keep themselves in shape.

But these aren't only the advantages. Sheila Golden, senior manager of PepsiCo and convinced farmer, said " Hoeing the land together, we want the employees to feel free from company hierarchies at last for some hours. In the vegetable garden we're all on the same level".