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School/Organization: Gibson Elementary
Grades/Ages: k-7
City: Delta
Province: British Columbia
Composting, Gardening and Waste Reduction
Posted on: 29 May 2024Action: For our students to understand composting we did a composting experiment where the students collected paper bags with food scraps and buried them into our 7 large garden beds. We purchased red wiggler worms to help with the composting experiment and...
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Posted on: 23 May 2023Action: We needed to replace a new garden box that was rotting away. We replaced this with a cedar garden box through the funding, and then we purchased plants and seeds for our students to grow. We had ten classes take part and plant seeds over seven gard...
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Posted on: 30 May 2022Action: Purchasing the garden boxes relates to sustainability as it makes students realize that they can easily grow food. The hope with the Green Team is that if kids can grow food at school maybe they will grow things at home too. When students start to re...
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