Reusing and Recycling

As this garden is also an opportunity for the children to learn how to care and respect the environment and what nature provide to us, we are trying to use old items or recycled material.
For example as suggested by Diana Reynolds, we used old metal spoons instead of buying new trowels, and we used milk jars/detergent containers as watering cans.

Diana Reynolds with the Junior Girl Scout Troop 48861 created plant labels from an old venetian blind.
To make a grid on the beds to mark the seeding area for each kid, we used plastic silverware from the cafeteria, that Mrs. Bode gently collected during a lunch session and washed for us, and some yarn.

David Lindquist gently donated his old bunny wire fence and a compost bin he found on the curbside.

Mike Curry donated us a compost bin that was sitting in his back yard, and Mrs Yeatts will donate us her old hose.

To seed tomatoes, basil and eggplants we used various plastic food containers and some old pots donated us by parents.
To feed the plants we are planning to start composting food from cafeteria and yard waste. We will teach the kids all about composting and making a good use of organic waste so that our land-fields will last longer.
So if you are reading this blog and wondering how you can help, go to the "Wish list" and see if you have something that we need and you are about to put it in the garbage.
It does not have to be new, as much it does the job.
Or you could go to the "Calendar" and "Activities" pages to see what are our next projects and volunteer or donate items.
Every little help counts and we will be very grateful!