Audubon partners with School Gardens

Willapa Hills Audubon supported local school gardens in an important way in the 2014-2015 year – they sponsored a garden AmeriCorps position for $5,000!  This allowed Lower Columbia School Gardens to increase our reach significantly, and connect hundreds more kids and families with real food and hands-on learning in school gardens.

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Willapa Hills also partnered with Lower Columbia School Gardens on a bird-box building event in January, when 28 Monticello Middle School students learned about birds and habitat, then assembled a cedar bird box to take home.  We see these kids as future advocates for a greener world because of these experiences – thank you Audubon!

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Update from the Monticello School Garden

“Most any Thursday afternoon you will find us in our garden. Advised by Mr. Smith and the expertise of Mr. Ian Thompson, we have a pretty good garden! We’ve had the garden for a couple of years and this time of the year we get to harvest the ‘fruits of our labor.'”

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Monticello Garden Update

Welcome to the Lower Columbia School Gardens blog!  First, raise your hand if you like the word “blog” ….. anyone?  No?  That’s what I thought.  Me neither. Sounds like cold oatmeal.   Anyway, here are a few photos of Monticello Garden Club kids planting the new area a few weeks ago.  They’ve been working hard all year to get to this point – they’ve spread yards and yards of gravel on curved paths, formed mounded beds, moved the greenhouse…. and now they’re doing the really exciting stuff!  Kids are now planting fruit trees, Japanese maples, blueberries, wild strawberries, lavender, and more.  This Thursday Nov 17 we’ll be harvesting potatoes and roasting them with olive oil, fresh herbs, onions…. stop by for a taste, 2:30 to 4:30.  500 free tulip bulbs are waiting to be planted too, so there’s lots of fun to be had.

 

That’s all for now!  We’ll take a break and be back at it in 2012!

Cheers,

Ian