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Students at Memorial Middle School get down and dirty growing chile and tomato plants
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Students at Memorial Middle School get down and dirty growing chile and tomato plants.

Who needs supermarkets when you can grow your own chile and tomatoes?

All 450 sixth-through-eighth-grade students at Memorial Middle School in Las Vegas, N.M., have nurtured chile and tomato plants from the moment they planted the seed in the school’s greenhouse.

Now that the school year is over the students will plant the seedlings somewhere in their yard and raise the plants until they bear chiles and tomatoes.

The plants are the culminating activities for the Memorial Middle School Agricultural Science Center, a partnership between New Mexico State University and the Las Vegas City School District.

“This is a great way to extend the educational process that began here in the greenhouse,” said Peter Skelton, NMSU faculty member responsible for the university’s newest agricultural science center.