Each year, 12th graders are tasked with creating a senior project as a prerequisite for graduating high school, which was the case for Summerville student Levi Cones.

Before his junior year in Tuolumne even concluded, Cones knew what he wanted to do. The 16-year-old decided in April 2024 to create a landscaping business, which he originally named “Levi’s Wacky Weeds Weedeating.”