BLS Garden
BLS Garden
Click here for the BLS Garden pictures.
THANKS FOR JOINING US FOR BLS Youth CAN’s 10/10/10 Global Work Party Event (www.350.org)
The BLS Go Green Grow Green Student Garden
BLS Youth Can’s long-range vision for a Sustainable Roofscape and Learning Center includes a greenhouse and cafeteria garden. While we raise the funds to be able to complete our sustainable roofscape ad rooftop gardens, students and teachers are eager to start growing and demonstrating sustainable changes NOW, especially when it comes to our plans to grow some of our own food for the school cafeteria.
The excitement about the garden is already taking effect. Several BLS teachers who attended Youth CAN’ Summer Institute on Sustainability Education have just made plans to use garden spaces as part of their teaching. For example, chemistry and environmental science students will study the soil in the raised beds and compare it to soil in the surrounding ground. Bio classes will have students focus on the seeds and plants, and health classes are going to help promote the nutritional benefits of the food we grow, and that's just for starters.
Proposed Construction:
December Garden Harvest and Salad Day
We harvested our garden in December, see pictures here. And served salad and kale chips a few days later.
Promoting Student Gardens Poster Contest:
To help promote the garden and label what we’re doing for people in the Fenway area, Youth CAN held a poster contest to help generate creative ideas to promote the importance of school food gardens. Attendees at the 10/10/10 Work Party at BLS were able to pick up guidelines for the contest (great prizes). Winners were announced at the Youth CAN Fall Sustainability Food Fair on November 13th at BLS. They were L. Tang and S. To.
Download the above flyer here.
First place winning posters above and below.