Monday, April 11, 2011

Garden Meeting / budget planning / St. Andrew's Building and Grounds committee


This week we are meeting Tuesday night at 6:30 to go to a St. Andrew's Building and grounds meeting. We will be bringing to the committee a discussion about the trees on the site location for the garden. Theses trees are the Cornus flordia, Camellia japonica, and  Ilex opaca.  I would like to discuss and explore with St Andrew's Building and Ground Committee to see if we can come with solutions for the Cornus flordia, Camellia japonica ( both are in poor condition ) and for long term the Ilex opacca ( which is in healthy condition). 



So please join us as we explore the next step to get our garden project moving forward.

We will also start looking at what we need to buy, so we can present a budget to the EA Terps for seeds, material for garden beds, or rain barrels. I would like to discuss about getting our other stake holders involved with our garden project. One Idea is to to buy some plastic barrels to turn into rain barrels that we can get the College Park Nursery involved with by painting our barrels. If we can create a budget and supply list we could organize a day of painting for the children. 


Theses barrels will help a rain harvesting for watering plants and slow storm run-off around the Student center. 




Any other ideas? Please give feed back here on the blog




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1 comment:

  1. Just came across two articles related to rain / rain barrels / water which might be of interest.

    Catching rain with rain barrels:
    http://www.care2.com/greenliving/catching-rain-with-rain-barrels.html

    25 things you might not know about water:
    http://www.care2.com/greenliving/25-things-you-might-not-know-about-water.html

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