Since it has been rainy, windy, cold, and snowy almost EVERY Wednesday for the last few months our Going Green Garden Club students have not been doing much outdoors. Instead, they came up with the great idea of creating a "how-to recycle" video for our school community. Our school recycles water bottles, paper, glue sticks and Capri Sun packets. The glue sticks and Capri-Suns are sent to Terra Cycle, a company that pays our school a small amount for each of these that we save. The money collected from our recycling will help fund the school garden. One of our club members featured below is super excited about this and created a great costume to help inspire students in our school to recycle old glue sticks.
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Thanks to all of our Garden Club parents who are planning to come to our harvest at 3pm Wednesday, December 11th. Here are some links with yummy recipes for the vegetables you take home with you. Enjoy! Kale Recipes for Kids Arugula Pizza How to Eat More Collards and Kale Parmesan Cheese Chard Garden Club students took advantage of a warm day in December to create a compost pile. We found worms, a toad, and a slug living in the heap! We will continue to turn and add to the pile to make nutrient rich soil for our Spring planting.The November 5th "Workday in the Garden" was a great success. We were able to accomplish so much that to the help of several teachers, parents, and family members. Thank you!!
In the Active Learning Garden we now have covers over our beds to protect the rapidly growing plants from the cold. In our Memorial Reading Garden, two fall/winter-blooming camellias have been planted; the entire shrub area on that end mulched; and the Zen Garden has been started. The area for planting the spring blooming Camellias has been prepared, and the 5 Senses Remembrance Garden has been planted. This plot is now ready to receive memory stones from students who are going through grief. The lattice surrounds for the AC units are under construction and will be installed after a couple more work sessions. Memorial stones for Ms. Sobomehin and Mr. Monroe are in the process of being ordered, as is the sundial and pedestal. Stay in tune for more garden updates and please visit our Volunteer Sign Up page if you'd like to get involved! Thanks to our great Going Green Garden Club who help to water and weed the vegetable garden beds. It has been one month since the veggies were planted and they are growing strong!
On Tuesday, November 5th from 8-3pm we will be hosting a "Workday in the Garden" for interested adult volunteers. Parents, grandparents, friends, teachers, and staff are encouraged to sign up for a slot at http://tinyurl.com/helpLES. On this day we will be doing a number of outdoor chores including weeding, planting, and mulching. Feel free to help out for an hour or all day. If you have not done so this year, please visit the Office and fill out a Volunteer Application. Thank you for all you do!
Students and Parents, Please feel free to print off this form if your student would like to be an active member of the Going Green Garden Club. This club will be working with our Learning Garden spaces as well as taking a role in the recycling initiative at our school. On Friday, September 27th wonderful parents , spouses, and siblings came out to lend a hand with filling in our new garden beds with soil. The beautiful raised beds were provided by Backyard Farmer and the garden gloves were provided by Henrico Education Foundation funds. Students planted lettuces, chard, kale, brussel sprouts, and broccoli. What a great day in the dirt!
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