ESLP Garden Cleanup Project Report: Ana Montero

     Hi, my name is Ana Montero. I am in 6th period Biology and this is my ESLP Garden Cleanup Report. I decided to do Garden Cleanup because last time it was very fun and didn't take much creativity. It also did something for the school that didn't require me to get insanely dirty or ask for special permissions. I decided to split my time between two days with one hour intervals.
    Day one of the project I moved bricks and picked up trash. The moving of the bricks was very hard as I am not very strong and had to lift the bricks and drop them over the fence. After I was able to get all the bricks out I had to load them up and move them over toward the compost piles. Man did it hurt! I loaded up the bricks into an already heavy wheelbarrow and pushed it over toward the compost piles. Once they were over there I carefully stacked them up and went along to picking up trash. The trash was very small and very hard to see, so it took a while to get going but once I got into a rhythm I was able to make it go by really quickly. All in all day one was very successful.
     Day two of the project I helped a group pull out weeds. It was very long tiring work but we made it go by very quickly. The weeds came out very easy if you got under the root so two people pulled the weeds and handed them to the others who plopped them in bins and carried them over. After the weeds were gone we got some people to bring over mulch to fill the newly de-weeded patch. We then spread out the mulch and after it was all done we were finished. Day two? Success!

Trash

Bricks all neatly stacked

compost pile with bucket of weeds