And After...

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What things looked like before




Before



Raised Beds Are In!

The Garden Build day on Saturday was a HUGE success!

 I showed up at noon with pizza thinking there would be lots of work left to do. Not so much. Nearly all the beds were installed, most were filled with dirt, and there was half a fence up. There was a conveyer belt of wheelbarrows full of dirt, shovelers, post-hole diggers, drill operators, bed levelers...amazing. Thad and Justin led the team of parents and students, Brenda the school garden coordinator for the district, and Mrs. Morton to the (near) completion of our first phase. Thank you thank you to everyone that came out to help get this project in the ground.

And thank you to all our community partners that have donated time and materials: Parr lumber for materials for the beds, Salem-Keizer School District for loads of tools and wheelbarrows, Marion-Polk Food Share for more tools, and Highway Fuel for a great discount on some great dirt!

If you get a chance, come see the work that's been done.

Look at all those kids ready to move some dirt!

 Here's our project manager Thad in action, lining up those fence posts. 

If you want to be involved in planting the beds and volunteering to help take kids into the garden after Spring Break, contact Kira. (dazz22@hotmail.com)

GARDEN BUILD DAY THIS SATURDAY!!

March 12th, Saturday

9:00 am to 3:00 pm

McKinley Garden Build Day

We have approval from the district to go ahead with Phase one!

Dirt will be delivered Friday afternoon, and Thad will be cutting up boards. Do you have a power drill and want to help? Contact Thad for more info on that.

Saturday morning will begin the first steps in creating a school garden at McKinley! After lots and lots of conversations, meetings, and more conversations, we are ploughing ahead. A big thank you to everyone involved. We have been able to move from just talking about a garden to really building one thanks to all your energy, time and support. The raised beds will be built, installed and filled with the parents, students and volunteers that show up on Saturday. We will also be installing a short fence to designate the garden area from the playground area.

There will be coffee, hot chocolate and donuts for our early morning workers. Pizza will come for the afternoon shift, with snacks and water in between to sustain the energy of our volunteers. There will be activities for school age kids when they get tired of shoveling and pushing wheel barrows. 

Come celebrate the McKinley School Community and what are energy and ideas can accomplish!

If you are planning on coming, and you have garden tools you could bring, these are some things we need:
wheel barrows                   shovels                        post hole diggers
brooms                             work gloves

Want to learn more about McKinley School Garden?

Silent Auction and Movie Night

Friday, March 4  6:00-8:00

The Garden committee will have an information table at the Silent Auction in the gym Friday night.  Come and see the conceptual design de Santis created and what the 1st phase will look like.

Pick up a "Cultivating Curiosity" sticker, a free packet of seeds, and sign up to help volunteer on the Garden Build Day, March 12th. There will be food for our dirt shovelers and wheel barrow-pushers, and activities for kids when they get tired of pulling ivy and hauling compost.

Come be a part of this exciting project!