Garden Cleanup b Chase Lyles

For our last E.S.L.P. I chose to do Garden Cleanup because I wanted to help the environment around me the best way I can.

Day 1. For our first day I had to pick the weeds from the garden by the nurse's office. Throughout the hole garden there were were many weeds and even more dead plants. Also there was a good amount of trash in the garden. It took me about 45 mins to pick up all of the trash and weeds from the garden, we filled about 4 buckets.
Day 2. For my second day my team and I  had to move compost into its own stall. Then we had to move the 2 piles that were in the parking lot to were the compost was. This took a little longer than expected because one of my teammates spilled the wheelbarrow 2 separate times. It was all good in the end and this was about 1 hour and 45 mins.

Garden cleaup

   In this round of garden cleanup I worked on picking the weeds in the parking lot garden. Me, and a few others gloved up, took a shovel, and went to work, getting all of the weeds away from the plants in the garden. This is important because these plants for 1, can harm the plant that is already there, which we want to keep healthy, and 2 they need to be picked so the maintenance workers at the school don't poison them. The issue is, if the weeds are not picked, the maintenance workers come by and spray pesticides on them, which kills the weeds but can get on the plants that we want to keep alive, which injures and kills them. So picking is the most effective method of keeping the weeds away, and that is exactly what we did, picked the weeds with our gloved hands, and tools, so the plants could healthily stay alive.

Chicken Coop Clean Up

So on a tuesday my friends and I all went to go ask Mr. Bursch if there was anything that i could do because he said he was pretty full but, thankfully he had a spot open for me. So one day i went after school to go clean up the chicken coop and Mr. Bursch told me to pick up the molch and put it in the chicken coop and he said that the decomposed molch to put it in the waste section of the graden. So the next day I had to do the same thing but instead this time i had to organize the molch in the chicken coop and spread it around and other stuff. Finally we all completed the service project and the chicken coop was looking nice and organized for the chickens.

ESLP Clean-up by Abel Spackman

For the final round of ESLP, I chose to do garden clean-up. I did this because I wanted to contribute to the school garden. I did this on a Wednesday and a Thursday doing one hour each day.

5/16- First day of garden clean-up. We got in group and I cut most of the dead grass surrounding the Kohlrabi plants and helped take out all of the weeds. This allows the Kohlrabi plants to grow without the interference of weeds taking the water and the grass blocking the sunlight. We cut out grass and pulled out weeds for one hour.

5/17- Second day of garden clean-up. I got back in the same group as last time and finished cutting all of the grass. I then helped pull out some large plants which had died and were simply taking up space in the garden. After pulling them out, we put them in the compost pile. After finishing that, we pulled out some more weeds. In total this took another hour.

ESLP Garden Clean Up by Steven Trujillo

For the last round of ESLP projects I signed up for Garden Clean Up. I choose this selection because I thought it would be cool to work on the garden and pick up new skills in the process. On Friday I showed up to the class and started garden clean up. For the first hour we moved a big pile of dirt to this container and laid down wood boards to stop mingling. We did this by shoveling dirt into buckets and transporting it to the container. Then we laid down the boards to create flat surface that will stop the mingling. Now for the second hour of garden clean up we transported piles of gravel and sand to the area we just cleared in hour one. We did this by filling wheel barrows and bringing them over. We found this very hard because some fell off the wood board and we dropped two wheel barrows full and had to clean it up. Finally we put away all the supplies and were done. I can take away that shoveling is back breaking work and to try not to make messes because they are hard to clean like when we dropped the wheel barrow.

First hour (before)

Hour and 20 mins

2 Hours (after)

ESLP garden cleanup By Antonio Arcoraci

For the final and last ESLP project i chose to do garden cleanup because i think garden are nice and should be treated with care. When i did garden cleanup it was not the first time i did it before i have to say it is pretty fun. My job was to pick up trash around the garden i must say when i picked up trash from the garden it was very dirty it might be from the students they might throw it on the ground. I did not care at all to pick up another person trash and throw it away so that the garden can stay clean. After i was done with picking up trash around the garden i did was pulled weeds growing inside and around the garden. I used a shovel to get the weeds growing in the garden. The shovel was probably the best tool in the garden to pull out weeds with in my opinion the weeds growing inside the garden i used my hands to pull them out. After i was done pulling out the weeds i put all the weeds in a bucket and put them in the compost bin. Then me and adien used scissors to trim the garden beds all of them when we were done we put some of the dry grass in the compost bins. Finally when i was done picking up trash, pulling out weeds, trim the garden beds and putting the weed and dry grass in the compost bins i used a broom to sweep up all the dirt from the weeds and the dust from the dry grass in the garden beds.

ESLP Final round Garden Cleanup

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.