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Students Learn Strawberry Growing

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 23, 2007

PLANT CITY - Students at two local middle schools are learning to grow strawberries without leaving campus.

Local growers have provided materials and expertise to establish fields where students can learn to grow the area's most famous crop.

About 200 agriculture students at Turkey Creek Middle and 250 at Tomlin Middle are learning skills that will help them carry on a farming tradition in the area that dates back almost 100 years. Most of the nation's winter strawberries are grown on farms in Plant City and surrounding areas.

"Planting strawberries and harvesting them for profit is an exercise these students will long remember," said Michael Drake, Turkey Creek's agricultural teacher.

Both schools will sell their crops and put the profits back into their agriculture programs.

George H. Newman

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