Civano Nursery teamed up with Santa Rita High School Future Farmers of America students this month to revitalize the school's landscaping.
Students and Civano workers worked at the school on Dec. 1.
The project has been in the planning stages since this summer. In August, Eric Clark from Civano Nursery taught landscape design to the Agriculture Science class at the high school. Each student developed a landscape design for the front of the school, which is at 3951 S. Pantano Road.
Juan Portillo came up with the winning design.
Civano Nursery owner Chris Shipley donated all the plants for the project, and Civano's Levy Cooper and Danny Buhrow helped the school's FFA students plant them.
Cooper and Buhrow also cut down two big dead trees on campus. "I worked with high school kids before and they wouldn't do anything, so I was dreading this," Buhrow said. "These kids, though, were great. They worked hard and did a good job. They were really worth their salt."
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Students, in turn, were thankful for the assistance.
"I appreciated the help that Danny and Levy provided," sophomore Hiram Olivas said.
Some of the same students plus others worked the next day, Dec. 2, installing decorative rock.
