Next event Monthly Meeting Mon June 11 at 4pm At the Claypit Hill School compost bins! Hands-On Composting in Action! Are you interested in learning more about how composting works at school and possibly for your home? Would you like for your children to have a better understanding of how food is grown? Please join the Green Team on Monday June 11th at the Claypit Hill School compost bins to see the results of a year's worth of composting, and help us move the fresh material to the Claypit Garden. Everyone is welcome! Please bring a shovel and a wheelbarrow if you can. Green Team meetings are held every second Monday of the month at 4 pm. Come and see what we're all about, what we are working on and have planned, and share your thoughts with us! Help us organize Earth Day which is 29 April 2012 + help us find alternatives for polystyrene trays in lunchrooms + Join our vibrant group of can-do people and green the schools and Wayland! Old News 8-12 August: Green Team and volunteers build compost bins at Claypit and Middle School. DEP composters move to Happy Hollow. 19 July: Board of Health approves composting at Claypit and Middle School. 19 July: Fixed leaks in irrigation system in MS Garden. All harvests go to Parmenter Food Pantry and local shelters.  THANK YOU, WHOLE FOODS AND WAYLAND SHOPPERS for raising $3,175 at the 5% day for the composting and school gardens project 14 June: read about our waste audit at Claypit in the Patch and in the Crier. Read the GT Year End Report for 2010-2011 presented to the School Committee on 23 May.  9 April: Wayland Earth Day Celebration | What's Going On  Over 60 exhibitors and 400 visitors. The Green Team met with the Board of Public Works on Monday, April 30, 2012, to stress the continued need for recycling pickup at our fields and parks. Soon after the issue was resolved and we'll have a recycling program! Read the article in the Patch for more details. Read an update here on what the Happy Hollow Gardeners are up to this Spring in their brand new raised bed garden. Read the Crier on the Tribute to the Clayit students and their fabulous custodian, Jose DaSilva, at the Thanksgiving Assembly.  Jose receives his dirt cake from Green Teamers Molly and Andrea (more pictures here) The Happy Hollow garden beds are IN! Thank you to all the volunteers, young and not-that-young, for helping out! The Town Crier reports here, and more pictures here.  After 2 weeks of training, Happy Hollow students are now avidly recycling every little scrap that can be recycled. Great work, everyone! By the end of this month Claypit Hill and Middle School will have put ONE TON of food scraps into the Compost Bins (instead of the incinerator)! Thank you to all involved!  More photos here Loker started Deep Recycling in October and the kids are doing a fabulous job. The Gardens at Middle School and Claypit Hill School are winding down. That doesn't make the pictures of the Summer gardens any less wonderful: We connected with Green Schoolyard Network, dedicated to transforming schoolyards into dynamic centers for teaching & learning, health & fitness, environmental literacy and community life and headed by Waylander Kirk Meyer |
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