The Rise of the Gardening Club

            A month later, by the beginning of June, we started coming up with really good ideas on how we could manage the garden better to make it more fun and involve more people. So we started planting many more types of plants than just basil and tomato which were already in the garden before we arrived. We planted lettuce, radish and spinach. The garden slowly started looking better and motivated us to take a step further in the project.

We decided to work on our goal of involving more people. I started talking to the middle school teachers about teaching kids how to plant. Ms. Jana and Mr. Ensley gave us some ideas of who we could teach and what we could teach them. They agreed with us that the Elementary department would probably be the most interested in taking their students to the garden. What motivated me the most to accomplish this goal was the desire to unite students from different age levels to make a more united community and watch the community working on such an environmentally friendly activity.

            Now it was time to take action. Jose Manuel and I first went to Elementary to talk with some teachers in the office about our idea. At first, they were unsure whether this project would work out. They asked many questions about what was the purpose of this project, what would we teach the kids and during what time of the day would we teach them? However these questions were no obstacle for us. We were very determined to get as many people involved in this project as possible and we wouldn’t back down.

Mr. Leboo was one of the first teachers to help us expand the gardening activity. We had already convinced him that this project would be effective in teaching students about organic gardening and its benefits over using chemicals. After meeting with Mr. Leboo and Ms. Boyer in the round house, the four of us decided that after school would be the best time for the gardening activity to take place. After confirming to them that our gardening activity would be an afterschool activity, we noticed that the middle school students could also be part of this activity. We then got permission to make a new garden beside the old one so we could have one exclusively for the afterschool activity. By the end of July we had everything planned to launch the new gardening project at the beginning of next semester.

 

To be continued…

 

PS – nothing has been modified from the original copy

-Mateo Mulder

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