Midlands students host annual spring plant sale [Video]

 “I’ve just grown to love it and grown to appreciate our outdoors and people who work in agriculture so much more,” Emily Darden said. 

 Darden is one of the many students in the Agricultural Education Program at the Center in Chapin. 

 “We can sit in the classroom and look on the board and talk about how plants are planted but it’s just a whole different perspective when you come up here and you’re able to take seedlings and grow them into sprouts and cuttings and plant them,” she said. 

 Colorful petunias, lantanas and vegetable seeds are ready for sale and the students are benefitting in and outside the greenhouse. 

“It’s helped me find my career choice. I started off Freshman year having no idea what to do with my life and …