4th Grade Goes Native!

Project Native Gardens

On 9/30/13 Mrs.Garcia's 4th grade class went to Project Native Gardens.This piture is at the end of the trip on the way to the butterfly house.Before that we were in the field walking around and collecting seeds.  My favorite part of the trip was walking along and looking at the beautiful flowers.  I saw so many flowers there, more then really anywhere!  I got stinging nettle while collecting seeds and so did some other people.  In the end it was great!
Written by Charlottte

 The children collected seeds in the seed field and we will be drying them over the next month.  Then we will store them until the spring when we make seed balls out of sand, soil and compost.  When we do the garlic mustard removal in April we will scatter the native seed balls so that native flowers grow again where the invasives had taken over.

 We started our afternoon in a circle learning about Project Native and the great work they are doing there.  Their goal is to grow native plants from seeds to have the community  plant in their home gardens. 

A bag of Joe Pye Weed seeds

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