A green schoolyard for Gatewood Elementary

The snow still falls, but we remain hopeful that spring will arrive and are ready to build our raised beds for the garden.  We built a prototype, two of our awesome teachers helped cut the lumber for the rest of the beds this past weekend, and we’re preparing for a work party to build and install them. Weather permitting, we’ll be meeting at the school this coming Sunday, March 12, 1pm.  Please join us!

Here’s the general plan for the beds–seven trapezoids in a circle, a design feat of mathematical proportions:

Here is the prototype bed:

And here are photos of our hard work this past weekend. Thank you, Mr. Revello and Mr. Gaynor!