Let’s do some shovelling!!
May 28, 2012
Hi, a new delivery of soil has arrived. Volunteers are needed to help shovel the dirt into the boxes anytime after school or in that “in-between time” from 2:45 to 3:15. Bring your shovels, tomorrow, Tuesday and let’s get it moved!
Planting will begin after the first moon in June!
Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds Funding…for us!
April 24, 2012
Today we got great news! The school garden has received a grant from the Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds Funding Program. We will receive $700 towards native plants and seeds along with other operating costs. Big shout out to Sue Comeau Stender who took the initiative to make this happen! You can read more about Toyota Evergreen project here.
Work party poster
April 24, 2012
Seeds started
April 24, 2012
This week each class has or is getting involved in starting seeds for the garden inside. So far we have planted moonbeam watermelons, zucchini, banana legs tomatoes, squash, basil, cilantro, lemon balm, pumpkin, carrots, cherry tomatoes and squash. Lots more planting to do come May! Thanks for everyone who donated seeds and help in the classrooms.
Work Party, May 5th, Everyone welcome!
April 18, 2012
Time to get dirty! Families, let’s get together and have a work party!
Saturday May 5th, 10am-1pm
(Rain date Sunday May 6th, same time)
Meet at the garden. Bring your shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows and electric drill if you have ’em, we’ll be building more boxes.
Pass this along to any community members, grandparents, friends that might be interesed in helping with the school’s garden. You do not have to have experience with gardening. Leave a comment here or contact Crystal Pelly elly@hrsb.ns.ca if you have any questions or suggestions. See you Saturday!
Get involved!
March 26, 2012
Hello Spring! Let’s get gardening!
March 20, 2012
Happy first day of spring! There will be an open meeting for all parents interested in participating in this year’s school garden. The meeting will be held next MONDAY, MARCH 26th, 7pm in the Inglis Street staff room. Everyone is invited, even if you don’t have a green thumb. We will be discussing what to plant, the plan to install 4 new boxes, grounds cleanup and fundraising.
Sue Comeau Stender and Crystal Pelly recently met with the School Ground Greening Consultant from the Evergreen foundation. The group is a “leading national funder and facilitator of local, sustainable greening projects in schoolyards, parks and communities across Canada.” Sue worked hard to deliver a grant application just before March break for funding for the garden. We should know soon if her hard work paid off.
Ms. Pelly has also been applying for school board and provincial grants that will give us the funding to build out more boxes to grow the footprint of the garden.
See you on Monday. If you can’t make it, leave a comment here and we’ll make sure we keep you up to date with what is happening in the garden. The tulips we planed in the fall are already making an appearance. What a week!
Garden Clean up SUNDAY OCT 23, 11am
October 17, 2011
We hope students and their families can come out on SUNDAY OCTOBER 23 at 11am to 12:30 to help with winter prep for the school garden and grounds. We hope to plant flower bulbs at the school entrance and around the school sign along with garlic bulbs in the garden, so if you have any extras you haven’t put in the ground yet, bring them along.
Please bring gloves, rakes and trowels if you have them.
See you Sunday!
Meeting Thursday Oct 13th
October 11, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving!
Everyone is invited to a garden planning meeting on Thursday, Oct 13th, 12:15pm at Inglis Street School. We will talk about what we need to build/budget for next year, what kind of fundraising and schedule another garden cleanup event before the ground FREEZES! Hope you can join us.