Our Plans This Year


- Work on community garden
- Collect household organics to create a compost
- Run a cafe and thrift shop out of the Community Hall
- Research content for information sessions for radio & hall activities
- Write letter to Forestry requesting tree seedlings
- Prepare soil and seeding the ball field with grass
- Begin clean up of Indian Head
- Childen's Awareness Days (decreasing ecological footprint)
- Beach Clean Up
- Awareness booth at Trout Festival activities
- Conduct nature walks to learn way to reduce ecological footprint in the environment

Community Garden - the Benefits


What are the benefits of a community garden?
1. Individuals have access to FRESH food
2. Involves physical activity, promoting health and fitness
3. Learning to grow plants is mentally stimulating and adds to an individual's knowledge and expertise.
4. Encourages the recycling of wastes through composting and mulching.
5. A social activity involving shared decision making, problem solving and negotiation, increasing these skills among gardeners .
6. Can be used to build a sense of community and belonging.
7. Regreen vacant lots and bring vegetational diversity to public open space and other areas.
8. To create a partnership between government and citizens to strenghten civil society.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

week 5

This week we did a big town clean up we did all the roads and around buildings and the back path and ellens barren park, the dock area, town office. our bosses came in this week and we took a tour of the poets path, did some gardening with our bosses we had pictures of everything and then we put all the pictures on our lab top.
It was great when our big bad bosses came in.

week 4

This week we did we did a environmental day on uranium. We also walked the poets path and took pictures but the batteries ran out half was so we planned to take pictures again another time. We pulled up all the weeds in our garden. We we went planting trees. we also put recycling can around town and we made a poster for the environmental awareness day. We fixed the fence, cut grass, put all the grass in a bin, had a meeting with uranium exploration.
We accomplished a lot this week .

Friday, July 24, 2009

week 3

This week we have done 3 Environmental Awareness Events. The topics we have chosen were water conservation, climate change, and we talked to the seniors about what we are going to be doing this summer and what we have done so far. We also told them if they have any concerns just contact us at the town council office. This week we have planted a few trees at different places in the community. We have also done 2 radio shows this week.The first radio show was on who the green team is and explaned what the conseration corps is and what we are going to be doing this summer. The second radio show was on water conservation. we have also checked out the poets path and made a check list on what we are going to need to do to cleaning it out. We have also done some work on composting told the community is they have any compost we will gladly take it all.

Friday, July 10, 2009

week 2

This week we worked at the garden. We cleaned all around the garden and grounded up the soil. Later on in the week we made soil beds and paths around the beds. Then we planted the vegetables . Then we planned out some EAE (environment awareness event) act ivies and printed off some coloring sheets and work sheets.
We had a meeting with the Department of Health and Social Development to do radio shows and environmental awareness events together.
We were going to do a radio show but it got cancelled till another day.
We went to have a EAE but attendance was low so we held it off for another day.
Over all I think it was a good week.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Corner Book Training

What I learned in green team training camp out Corner Brook was that the school out New Brunswick is surround by dangerous plants that pollutes the air around the school. I was also taught about good energy saving tips. I came back to the green team I was employed last year So I already learned a lot. It was a great experience and I met a lot of great new people.