A Note From The Garden…
Even though it’s cold outside the garden at DGM is alive and growing. Primary age children in all classes have an opportunity to spend time in the garden planting, composting, learning about how things grow, watching helpful bugs and sampling the herbs and lettuces growing right now. We will also be doing school beautification projects and spend time observing the wildlife at our school (have you noticed the ground squirrels in the back?) Special efforts are being made to encourage a school wide composting project so kids can collect food scraps from home and bring them to DGM along with lunchtime composting and recycling. It will take some time for children to get used to throwing their apple cores and banana peels in the compost container but it’s our desire to get the whole school recycling and composting what we can.
The higher grades will also be gardening and will be starting seedlings to be transplanted into the new planter bed outside classroom #10 (upper elementary). This garden space almost doubles the amount of planting area we have and as stewards of that space the upper elementary students will have the chance to grow flowers, herbs, vegetables as part of their fundraising for Big Trip. The planter took a few months to complete and is now being filled with soil (special thanks to dad Mark Hennigh).
The school will be adding a number of fruit trees and one of the DGM father’s will be overseeing this project with the upper elementary students.
The middle school students are going to be researching how to build a greenhouse. This project will enable the school to produce more seedlings to transplant later or for families to plant in their own gardens. They will also be helping at a produce farm learning with Ms. Stella who is so generous with her time to our students.
Parents are welcome to help in the garden, bring compostables to school (we have containers for you) or to donate garden tools, gloves, seeds or anything else the garden could use.
Sincerely,
Carrie Ladewig
Garden Teacher
