I know Joan has her own email list of collaborators, affiliates, supporters and loyal minions =) but I wanted to repeat this info for anyone that happens to be regularly tuning in to the IDES Learning Garden blog: We are having a volunteer day this Saturday, April 22nd, from 10:00-1:00. We have been doing a potluck style feast at the end of the various projects and chores, so please bring some kind of food dish to share... I think Dorothea, Josie, Yanusz and I will be contributing at the very least an appropriately mustardy egg salad!
Here are some of the things Joan will be orchestrating us into accomplishing:
-- Establish grade-level SALAD garden beds (with signage)
-- Plant potatoes in vertical beds
-- Fabricate and initiate Greenworks composting bins
-- Plant potatoes (Donated by Barefoot Farm)
-- Paint Signs for 'Experience Dickson' Night, others
-- Spread fresh mulch about our grounds (conserves water) --> Please bring a wheelbarrow/pitchform if you have one!
-- Start more seeds + transplant more stuff from the greenhouse (kale, cabbage, etc.)
-- Plant in our pollinator gardens
-- transplant healthy-sized seedlings into pots for sale
-- whack some weeds down --> If you have a weedwhacker, we NEED YOU + IT to attend, desperately :)
Thank you so much to Joan, Raymond, the Garden Leadership team, the Teacher Garden Vision Team, and Brad Johnson for all the planning, support and execution that we've been able to manage so far. Many of us fail to realize how active these people are making each and every Dickson green space, day in and day out. Every time I see Joan during the school day, I can't believe how many kids she and her wonderful supporting cast of highly-engaged teachers have got being pulled on by the gravity of sustainable, green living and thinking =)
As always, I look forward to seeing familiar faces out there this weekend (and to dining from those now-classic, fabulously unique + uber-functional stainless steel mess trays)!
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