The Nursery and Landscape Technology Class at Descanso County Detention Facility is taught by Mike Gorham, who has helped with our garden project since April of 1996. In 1996 he taught at Barrett Honor Camp. He is now at Descanso. His students amaze us every time that they come to our garden. They do incredible amounts of quality work in a very short amount of time. They came for two days in April of 1998 and built the Salt Marsh habitat, dug over 140 holes and set posts for a fence, framed a foundation for a shed,sealed the waterfall, poured a cement bench and put in a new irrigation line. They would have done more, but we did not have everything needed. In July a crew of only five came for three days and they drilled holes in all the posts, strung two rows of cable through the holes, changed 150 feet of our asphalt ditch to cement, fixed a broken irrigation line, installed nine signs, and dug holes for oaks to be planted in the fall. The garden looks totally different now.
On the left is the way the drainage ditch looked when the crew started to remove the asphalt, on right the ditch when they left and some heads had been installed.
On the left are the posts installed in April, on the right after cable was installed.
Installing the habitat signs built by the Job Corps welding class.
The crew makes the ditch out of cement and a foundation for a shed.