The CDE (Career Development Event) season is right around the corner for FFA members at Weston High School. Easily it is the busiest, most stressful, and most rewarding time of the year in the Ag Department. The students have been putting in many hours studying and preparing for their respective contests. Most of these hours are either completely on their own time at home or at after school practices on top of their normal school work.

This past Wednesday, 20 students competed at the District Career Development Events highlighted by the Floriculture team winning first and second places for the third year in a row. The Poultry Judging and Nursery/ Landscape also had fourth place finishes. 
On Thursday, 11 students went to Monroe to competed in three contests and on Friday, the Welding team won first place in the District Mechanics competition with another qualifying for the area contest. 

Congratulation to all the teams that qualified to move on to the AREA 1 CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVENTS to be held at LA Tech on March 22nd.

Spring Plant Sale Coming Soon! 

Over the past month, the students in the Agriculture Department have been super busy getting things ready for the spring plant sale! Things are growing well and looking better with each passing day.

So far, 500 12-inch hanging baskets of petunias, perwinkles, portulaca, and coleus have been planted, as well as, another 300 10 inch hanging baskets of petunias and periwinkle. There are also several trays of perwinkles and portulaca planted and some Gerber daisies, coleus, and Lantana.

These plants are sure to be the talk of your neighborhood when you come get yours picked out to spruce up your flower beds.

For who believe “If I can’t eat it I’m not planting it”…there are also 1200 tomatoes and 1500 peppers of different varieties planted that is hope to be ready to put in the ground at the beginning of April.

Every purchase from these plants goes back into the Weston High School FFA account to help fund other shop projects as well as future greenhouse and plant projects.

This is your chance to help put money back into the education of the children of our community on top of getting you some top notch plants to help beautify your yard. Stay tuned for updates on the progress and for when sale dates begin.