Here are a few portraits of the students involved in creating the amazing Woodlake, Calif. botanical gardens — a 14 acre farm of unique collector varieties of fruit trees, vegetables and flowers that also doubles as a gang prevention program. It’s one of the most beautiful, mesmerizing places in the region thanks to these teens and children and to a local couple, Manuel Jimenez and his wife Olga, who dreamed up the gardens. Read my story about the gardens here.

10-year-old Roman Ramirez takes a break from clipping tomato plants at the botanical gardens in Woodlake, Calif.