Fallbrook FFA takes a first-place at fair

Fallbrook High School's Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapter has a nursery landscape team which earned a first-place ribbon at this year's San Diego County Fair for the group's landscape display.

"The kids were very happy about that. It's just nice to see that their hard work was rewarded and that they did well," said Fallbrook High School agriculture teacher Scott Duffin, who is in charge of plants for the school's agriculture program and associated FFA chapter.

"Like a Fish Out of Water" combined this year's fair theme with a water conservation theme. Seven students, including a 2014 Fall...