Tuesday, July 7, 2015

New Beds and Books

Spring at the Garfield Garden brought a lot of great new additions. Thanks to our amazing garden committee and especially Kristina Taylor we were able to make several improvements to the garden and other areas of the playground.

Kristina won us a Lowe's grant which allowed us to add 2 new garden beds, 2 Little Library boxes, a picnic table for outdoor learning, and a Buddy Bench.

With the help of some dedicated volunteers we laid down weed mat, stained the beds, installed a drip watering system and planted a few new trees. The
gardens were now ready for students to start growing.
Hard at work amending the soil

Digging trenches for the new drip watering system



Adding weed mat and stain

Ready to GROW!
New beds, Little Library, and picnic table


Amazing Eagle Scout volunteer installed our Little Libraries



Ready for eager readers


Our Buddy Bench is where we find friends to play with at recess