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Mary G. Montgomery AgriScience

Spring is in bloom inside these 7 greenhouses on the campus of Mary G Montgomery High School. "This program was started in 1971 it's a big part of the community a big part of the school," says Mark Miller. For more than 40 years AgriScience Pathway has been offered as part of the M-G-M curriculum. The award winning program is designed for students interested in learning the nitty gritty about different soils. "I learned how to make soil for the plants I've done a lot of construction out here building things and fixing things that have gotten broken," says M.G.M. Senior Dylan Calhoun. Calhoun and other classmates also learned how to grow and fertilize horticultural plants in greenhouse and nursery settings. They excelled so well at agriculture engineering they took home a few awards this school year. "Last year we went to state and we won state in Agricultural Mechanics, we went to nationals and we placed 11th," says Calhoun. Several hundred M.G.M students in grades 9 through 12 can easily identify all landscape plants . They also design landscape plans, and can properly install plants in the right outdoor environment. But they say watching and nurturing the growth of a plant is the best part of all. "We grow all kinds of peppers and tomatoes and flowering plants," says Calhoun. "We take them from little plants and we grow them where they're big enough to sell then we sell them to the public," says M.G.M. Senior Austin Beaty. Teachers say the courses give students a hands-on approach which is a key component in learning AgriScience. "It's such a large program we have to have two teachers here actually and we hope to build on this and make it a bigger success than what it is," says Miller.