Eight-year-old Sandy Lake twins Andrew and Eric Smith are learning how to turn a profit margin using their family’s greenhouse.

The boys are home schooled by their parents Marianne and Brian Smith. To learn business skills, they grow and sell organic vegetables at their home.

“I thought it would be a fun idea and we have lots of plants,” Andrew said.

The boys sell tomato, cucumber, broccoli and watermelon plants that are ready to be replanted in any garden.

“We don’t put any chemicals or pesticides on them,” Andrew added.

Eric said the normal eater can’t taste the difference, but the finished product of the vegetables is much more healthy than those grown non-organically.

The boys have too many plants to count in the greenhouse, Andrew said. They take about two weeks to spout from seeds and grow into seedlings ready to be sold.

The whole project has been a great learning experience, their mother said. They’ve learned how the process of starting a business works and have even created a logo for their company.

The best part about growing vegetables, Eric said, is time spent watering them.

“You can get really wet when you water and I like getting wet,” he said, adding he and his brother usually use squirt guns to spray the plants and, more often than not, each other.

The twins are saving up their earnings for inline roller skates, Mrs. Smith said.

Besides learning the ropes of business, the boys are also preparing for careers in the corporate world by taking lessons to improve their golf games.

They’re also on a swim team in Grove City, volunteer for Meals on Wheels and taking violin and piano lessons.

Home school also affords the opportunity to learn things not normally taught to students their age, like the Mandarin language, Mrs. Smith said.

Mrs. Smith said she and her husband have helped in the plant growing process a little, but when the boys continue next spring they’ll be completely on their own.