As some of you may know we have created a Composting Program with our Culinary Arts students. They bring us vegetable and fruit scraps from the kitchen and we add them to leaves, pine needles, pruning scraps, and grass clippings that we collect; all of it goes into the composter!This program has yielded some beautiful product which we added to a raised bed that we have been working on since last year. The bed runs alongside a portion of our school building. The first layer of material put down included clumps of sod that we had after several of our edging and planting projects. We turned the sod clumps upside-down to smother the grass. Upon that layer we added leaf compost, generously donated by UVA Grounds management. Upon that layer was added our very on compost. To finish off the look the students mulched with a layer of pine needles gathered from out own campus. We hope to create a drought resistant annual and perennial flower garden this spring!
STUDENTS and BLOG VISITORS - To create this bed we used materials found here on campus, and donated materials, making this a "free" landscaping project. With this in mind, how might you approach new projects assigned at school, or new projects that come up at home? Please answer using the "comments" option.
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I WOULD HAVE USED OUR OWN PEELINGS,CLIPPINGS,AND LEAVES BEFORE IF I WOULD HAVE KNOWN. NOW I WILL USE THIS METHOD WE HAVE ALOT OF SHRUBS AND GRASS, WE USE ALOT OF VEGETABLES AND THE YARD IS FULL OF HOLES. SO THERE IS ALOT OF WOEK TO BE DONE.
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