Students, community find benefits at FVCC farm

While most college students spend the school year with their noses buried in books, some of the agriculture students, interns and volunteers at Flathead Valley Community College get more hands-on homework.

They spend their spring and summer days plucking weeds from the wheat fields and planting fresh beds of lettuce on the 7-acre farm owned by the college, located off Hutton Ranch Drive.

Led by instructors with years of experience in both the field and the lab, students do much more than just planting and harvesting on the farm, however. They participate in every facet of production, from seed selection to pest control, according to professor and director of the college’s agriculture program, Heather Estrada.

By MARY CLOUD TAYLOR Daily Inter Lake

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