THIS FRIDAY - Earth Day Events @ our School - Families Welcome to Participate!!
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Last year our school purchased 5 horse troughs to use as raised garden beds for an urban sustainably garden program starting this year! They have now been painted a light grey and delivered back to our school (the school paid for the paint, and the man hours to actually prep and paint them were donated - how NICE!) & they look great!!!... The raised beds will be positioned and filled with dirt this week... AND THEN....
Our students will be painting leafs, flowers and vines on them with acrylic paint and soon will transplant the veggies they've been growing inside the school into them (once the risk of frost passes). There are also plans to plant tall grasses around the troughs that look like wheat, to further enhance the "curb appeal" of our garden area/the front side of school. It's going to look so great!
Speaking of pretty-ing up things - Some CBE employees were out this am DONATING their time to do some major yard clean up as well - they raked, and trimmed up our trees, and cleaned up the existing rock/garden beds as well. A big thank you to them as well!!
In honour of Earth Day our school will be organizing several outdoor events (weather dependant) and kicking off the "grow your own groceries" initiative (growing vegetables at home in grocery bags), using soil and seeds donated from Co-Op (Thank you Co-Op!!). If you can, please come!!
