Vision

The goal of the four students at St. Justin Martyr Catholic Elementary School was to educate our school community about planting for a sustainable future. They are doing this to help stop climate change by encouraging at-home planting and gardening to reduce long transportation costs. We are showcasing the steps we can take to ensure healthy and eco-friendly growth. Their project also hopes to inspire others to take steps for our planet’s good. This project is vital to our community because it displays how every action can create a difference, no matter how small. We believe we can start a more significant movement from this smaller project. Together they will be donating our spring onions to our participating classes and selling starter planting kits to students at our school. The selling of these seeds will promote at-home gardening so that we might increase the number of people we influence to create a garden of their own.

Action

The four students at St. Justin Martyr participated in the LSF Action Project, where we grew spring onions in an environmentally friendly way. To start, 9 classes participated in growing 10 plants each. In total, we have 90 spring onions. They used buckets to collect rainwater and snow to grow the onions. Along with this, we educated our classmates and teachers on the importance of our planet.

They are helping to stop climate change by encouraging at-home planting and gardening to reduce long transportation costs. They are showcasing the steps we can take to ensure healthy and eco-friendly growth. This project also hopes to inspire others into also taking steps for the good of our planet. This project is vital to our community because it shows them how every action can create a difference, no matter how small. We believe we can start a more significant movement from our smaller project. They will be donating our spring onions to our participating classes and selling starter planting kits to students at our school. The selling of these seeds will promote at-home gardening so that we might increase the number of people we influence to create a garden of their own. The challenges they encountered included not being able to provide the plants with their basic needs over the March Break and at first not having any growth success. During the March Break, they gathered all the plants from the classes into one and asked a custodian to help us water them. However, due to the lack of sunlight for a long time, the plants began to wilt when we returned to school. Next time, we will consider bringing them home for better care.

Reflection & Celebration

Overall, the students who participated in this project had a great experience. Students were engaged and were inspired to be a part of the project. Looking back, this project supported so much learning: collaboration, time management, production, planning, and revising.