. >> reporter: sherrill said her battle with breast cancer has changed her perspective on many things, including her diet. instead of doing what is easy at meal time, she now does what is best. >> proper way to cook, what to eat, what not to eat, just different recipes, things to eat to try to keep your meals interesting. >> reporter: she often eats foods from this garden, one planted and maintained by cancer patients just like her. it was an idea from dr. steven clinton who said these two acres yield just as many life lessons as fresh foods. >> an experience with cancer can be turned into a very teachable moment. it's a time when forecasts really do reevaluate their lifestyle, diet and nutrition. >> hoping to capitalize, there clinten is using this garden to dress to cancer patients the importance of fruits and vegetables, and if he has his way, these foods will soon be engineered to to be highly concentrated cancer fighters. >> we wants to create the fruit or vegetable that has the most possible anticancer activity. is. so dr. clinton is working with scientists to cross breed food w