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.
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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 .
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