When you bow your head to give thanks for your food, you can be thankful for more than the food itself. You can give thanks for the agriculture, production, and even the selling of the food. Without all those steps, you wouldn’t have it!

Take a look in your cupboards. All the food in there has to come from somewhere, doesn’t it? Kids from Our Lady Guadalupe School learned that first hand. It takes many hands to bring us the foods we can sometimes take for granted—like salsa.

The kids started by planting tomato and pepper seeds in their classrooms. The seedlings grew bigger. The students transplanted them onto a plot of land. Soon their tomatoes and peppers would be juicy, red salsa. They made posters for what they knew was coming: a big sale.

Finally, the kids gathered in a church basement kitchen. They blanched the tomatoes, then canned their final product. In the end the students sold 130 jars of salsa. They made $690.

Third-grader Alison Munshower got to taste their creation. “It is very good," she told the Telegraph Herald. "But it is spicy.”