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| Our Mark Newbie Green Team |
Last year we began green team on a single quote found, it seemed to define for us what green team stood for, our mantra.
Green Team Mantra
“In the end we will Conserve only what we Love,
We will Love only what we Understand, and
We will Understand only what we are Taught.”
~Baba Dioum Senegal
It is with these words and a weekly shopping trip to whole foods that this idea was born...a brochure picked up about whole foods giving grants to elementary schools to create edible gardens. What did we have to lose? What better way to give each child a sense of responsibility to the land that feeds them. We have begun a way of project based learning that in our suburban environment can give our children a safe space for the exploration of play and activity in the outdoors. This structure for the green team is hopefully just the beginning of a more hands-on outdoor classroom amplifying math, science and language arts that are currently only taught inside. And if nothing else we have begun a process of learning about where our food comes from and how to tend and care for what nurtures us.
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| Sal our builder gets some help from Superintendent Scott Oswald, Newbie Parents and Borough local teens |
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| progress |
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| placement of kindergarten bench |
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| almost done, now just for the soil and plants! |
Our first season of planting are lettuces donated by our Collingswood market farmer Kevin from Panther Farms in Vineland, NJ.
When these lettuces are ready we will be offering them to our Mark Newbie students to take to their families and enjoy, if there are too many to finish we will be donating them to a local food bank.
This will be our first growing season we hope to learn a lot to help us toward our big spring planting.
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| planting our romaine transplants |
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| ready set start planting! |
After our first planting we received some press!
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