Hello Spring! Let’s get gardening!

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!