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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary
Providence Public Schools
Address:
35 Camp Street
Providence, RI 02906
US
Telephone: (401)456-9398
Fax: (401)456-9497
Email: sanad13@cox.net
Website: http://www.providenceschools.org/es/king/
Our garden is underway! After laying compost over the field last fall, we spread lime early this spring. With the help of school volunteers from Moses Brown High School, we began plotting the garden beds. Last weekend we laid a stone dust pathway and spread woodchip paths between the beds. Every class pre-K through 6th grade will have a bed for planting, and some have already put in plants they started from seed earlier in the spring.
We'll be posting photos of our garden and it's progress shortly.
Next step, construct outdoor classrooms, more garden beds, espalier structures for apple and pear trees next spring!
Update!!! August 2008.
Our garden is going wild! We will post pictures shortly. The tomatoes have grown to four feet tall. there is corn which is not quite as high as an elephant's eye, but it has ears! We can't wait until the children return to school to see the transformation.
There have been some setbacks, the weeds are trying to take over. The tomatoes did not get staked adequately, and the stone dust path was eroded by the recent rain. But maybe that is a good example of a need to work with nature and not against it. In Mexico they call them vados, a road that runs through a wash which during rains, becomes flooded. Perhaps we need to build a vado.
Will post pictures soon.
2007 CGN Grant Award Winner
Amanda Lucas
