Some high school students find themselves in sports, others in academics, then there's the Future Farmers of America.
"FFA is more than just farming," said Lilly Craig, a junior at Edwardsville High School. "It's more than the flowers and the crops and the cows and the horses. It's the people you get to meet and the different things you get to experience. You really get to learn a lot about yourself. Leadership. Leadership is huge."
On April 25, Craig and other students in Gina Kassing's horticulture class stayed after school for EHS' annual plant sale to raise money for the FFA program.
"We started in early February with just little bitty starts," Kassing said. "They weren't very big at all. Now they have gone crazy."
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