{"id":132356,"date":"2026-01-26T17:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/132356\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:22:11","slug":"sickles-students-get-hands-dirty-learning-tree-care-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/132356\/","title":{"rendered":"Sickles students get hands dirty learning tree care | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARROLLWOOD \u2014 Sickles High School National Honor Society students got a hands-on lesson in tree care Jan. 17 at VISTA Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Upcavage, an arborist with Independent Tree, taught about a dozen students proper tree-trimming techniques and the work of certified arborists. The company supports and partners with VISTA Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>After his presentation, Upcavage and the students planted a 15-gallon yaupon holly tree in the Wildflower Garden. He demonstrated trimming techniques using a pole (pulley) pruner on several trees on the grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Separately that day, VISTA Gardens planted 40 native plants in a section of the Carrollwood Pollinator Corridor, completing activities for a Viva Florida Landscape Demonstration grant.<\/p>\n<p>The Village Institute for Sustainable Technologies and Agriculture Gardens is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2008 through a partnership of three Carrollwood Village homeowner associations and Hillsborough County Parks and Recreation Department. The 3.31-acre park uses solar power to pump water from a 230-foot-deep well.<\/p>\n<p>For information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vistagardentampa.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.vistagardentampa.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARROLLWOOD \u2014 Sickles High School National Honor Society students got a hands-on lesson in tree care Jan. 17&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3204,6623,1408,31913,36532,65091,26023,276,53600,36529,36531,14433,65090,31915,6622,65089,35937,65088,135,137,136,13935,65087],"class_list":["post-132356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-agriculture","tag-botany","tag-carrollwood","tag-ecology","tag-environmental-design","tag-forestry","tag-gardening","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-horticulture","tag-landscape","tag-landscape-architecture","tag-natural-environment","tag-plant-agriculture","tag-plant-life-forms","tag-plants","tag-plants-and-humans","tag-sickles-high-school","tag-sickles-high-school-national-honor-society","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-trees","tag-vista-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}