Merced College students plant more than 1,000 almond trees

The task volition springiness students hands-on acquisition moving with crops from planting to harvesting and selling.

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- Merced College is celebrating a large measurement arsenic students planted much than 1,000 almond trees crossed 10 acres of land.

The task volition springiness students hands-on acquisition moving with crops from planting to harvesting and selling.

The almond orchard is simply a collaboration betwixt Merced College, the Almond Board of California and Duarte Nursery, which provided the trees.

Clarice Turner, the president and CEO of the almond board, says the cardinal to maintaining the state's affluent agriculture is educating young people.

"It's the hands-on acquisition that truly hooks you into farming and truly gets your bosom progressive successful what it is radical bash each time successful this state, feeding the country, feeding the world," she said.

"This is simply a one-of-a-kind programme wherever we are virtually teaching students from workplace to store what it takes to beryllium progressive successful the ag manufacture successful a contextualized situation wherever they are going to beryllium progressive successful each measurement of the process, including successful our ag innovation center, which we're gathering close now," says Merced College President Chris Vitelli.

The schoolhouse broke crushed connected the caller ag-tec innovation halfway past year, and it's expected to unfastened sometime this year.

It volition location precocious processing instrumentality for fruits and vegetables, a grooming hub and assemblage workplace market.

Once the trees turn and nutrient almonds, they volition beryllium sold by students successful the market.

The schoolhouse besides has plans for 30 acres of chromatic effect and citrus, positive different 30 acres of different crops.