Edison Middle School Native Garden Workday

Description

Come out and help a local Houston Middle School get their native garden setup and ready for planting. We are looking for volunteers to come help lend a hand.

Purpose

The project is for the Science Workshop Site at Edison Middle School from the Children’s Museum of Houston. What this will do is help prepare the area so that the students in the summer program can do native plantings.

Role

*A wetlands project will need to be dismantled because of climate change and the unpredictability of rain. *Tasks include digging up plants, landscaping pavers, and rocks that were used. *Beds will be established for the students to do native plantings during the summer program with the museum *A Pond clean-up will also be occurring. With COVID closures, the workshop staff was unable to come to the school. Maintenance crews cut all the plants in the pond and let the debris fall in the water, thereby causing a depletion of oxygen. *Tasks include removing unwanted plants and adding new plants Possible Secondary Activity They would like to have dirt delivered that day. Unfortunately, the truck cannot enter the garden and has to dump the dirt on the sidewalk. Volunteers will be needed to help move it in wheelbarrows.

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