ELSP #4

For this round of Ecology Service Learning Project, I did garden cleanup. For the first hour of garden cleanup, I had pulled out the weeds near the garden beds and on the pathways. I had also filled the compost piles with the weeds and piled mulch on top.  For my second hour of garden cleanup, I continued weeding the areas which need to be weeded. I took out a few of the useless plants in the garden beds with others as well. Also, I had continued to dump more of the plants and weeds into the compost pile, and filled the rest of the space with mulch.

Garden Cleanup 6/1/18 David Navarro

For my second time doing Garden Cleanup, most of the area had changed. A path around the shed was made, the massive pile of mulch by the fence that I was moving last time was gone, and the the garden area had grown alot. For my first hour, me and three other people pulled weeds and              re-mulched, if that's the term, and small garden area on the pathway that links the Z-wing and the open area in front of Mr. Bursch's room.

For my second hour, I joined a larger group to help move a large pile of dirt into compost bins, so that we could a) prepare them for compost, obviously, and b) to clear space, so we could make a platform. On that platform, we put the leftovers from the path around the shed. After we finished moving the last wheelbarrow of remains, my 2 hours were finished, and I went home.

Garden Cleanup 6/1/18 Ian Gill

During my two hours of garden cleanup I did a number of things to help the WGHS Gold garden grow. On the first day I helped remove the dead grass from the planter beds of the brassica olracea plants. This will allow the plants to continue to grow without opposition. I also pulled out some other dead plants that were taking up space. On the second day of garden cleanup I help move the the two compost bins into one and then helped move the dirt into the now empty compost bin. After all the dirt from the sideboard was moved we moved the gravel from the parking lot into the space with wheel barrows. All of this sorting will make it easier to move the material you want to where you want it to help the garden expand and grow.

Sophia Andrakin- Garden clean up

              For my service project I decided to do garden clean up. For the first day I worked for 1:30. A small group and I went to the little garden close to the H wing. We pulled all of the weeds to make the garden look more clean cut. We also picked up all the trash around the area. This was specially hard because people can get very creative when it comes to hide their trash. My second day 2-3 people and 1 worked on the little garden behind the science wing. We worked their for about 40 mins. Some of us started to pulled the weeds around the perimeter and the inside of the garden. While the others people walked back and forth getting new bark and pouring it over the garden. After we finished weeding everything out of the garden I started to smooth out the bark that the other people gathered up.
how much garbage I collected half       How many weeds I pulled the first                                                way though my first day.                      half an hour of the first day.

Garden Cleanup Katarina Myers

For this final ESLP round, I decided to help by doing garden cleanup. I worked for two hours on Thursday the 17. The grass in the beds with our plants was dead and overgrowing. We were asked to cut and weed these areas and the area around the chicken coop. We also picked up whatever trash was there. This helped to make space for future plants and clear out the plants that people were complaining about.

Anthony Politi's Round 4 Cleanup Experience

For my final garden cleanup we shoveled rocks and sand that was on the ground and put it into a pile it needed to be in. the piles we shoveled were big. We shoveled as much as we could into buckets and a wheel barrel and brought it to the place we needed to and put it there. We did this because we needed to get all the rocks and dust and sand from it out of the parking place and where Mr. Bursch's stuff was. The area we put it is was next to the piles that we made last time with the dirt fertilizer and weeds. We might have put it there to use later either there or somewhere else in the garden or just because we need to get all are stuff somewhere before school ends. It wasn't a hard assignment more just time taking because of how much and big the piles were. It also taught us how to be patient and take are time to do a good job which you will need to do if you wanna do good in the garden.

Garden Cleanup Round 4

This round of garden cleanup, I did many things around the campus and in the school garden.  The main things that I worked on were weeding, both in the garden and the student parking lot, but also helping other students out with their own special ESLP project.  The jobs I did could be summed up as minor cleaning but also helping construct the foundation of a new addition to the school garden.

The first job that I did that was where I spent most of my time on was getting rid of the weeds in the center part of the student parking lot.  The middle area of the student parking lot has gone through a lot of changes of the course of many years.  A while back a bunch of students planted plants in the centerpiece of the parking lot as a part of their ESLP project.  Since then, the plants have grown a lot but also caused a lot of weeds or smaller plants to grow in the same area of land.  So me, along with other students, got rid of a bunch of the weeds in the area as shown in the pictures below.  There was a lot to get rid of including some trash.  This job was only temporary and eventually, some other students will have to redo the job.  Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures in the main garden, but I was able to remove a large portion of the weeds that were close by the plants from the Story of the Seed projects.

The other main job that I did was helping partners with a new addition to the garden.  The objective was to add a pathway along the side of the shed to get behind the shed and to other parts of the garden a little bit easier than before.  The first step of their project was dig out a pathway and to level the ground to add a gravel or some material to form the final product.  My help involving trimming the ground to make as level as possible.  The end of that step is shown below.

Overall, I did a good amount of work not only in the garden, but on other areas of the school campus.  The pathway behind the shed will remain a permanent part of the school garden.  However, next year there will have to be other students to redo the weeding.