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Nature and Art Gift-Making Workshop for Kids!

December 18th
Time: 2:30 pm-4 pm
Ages: 6-12
Price: $25.00 (all materials included)

Decatur Artist and Educator, Sarah Collman will lead your children in fun nature-related art projects. Perfect to give to relatives, teachers, and sitters for the holidays.

We are located less than a mile from Decatur’s Downtown Shopping District and Your Dekalb Farmers Market. Drop your children off for this fun gift-making workshop and get some holiday shopping done.

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From all of us at EcoAddendum, Happy Holidays!

It was a wonderful week of planting with students and volunteers from Kingfisher Academy, Druid Hills High School, and Park Pride at the Freedom Park garden installation.  In three days of planting, over 200 native plants were put back into the Georgia soil.  Photos for all three plantings can be found on their respective pages.
EcoAddendum and the Birds, Butterflies and Bees Program have had a very successful Fall and we are planning for a even better Spring!  If you, your school, or your local greenspace is interested in working with EcoAddendum and the BBB Programming, please fill out a “Native Garden Application” found in “Forms & Applications” under “Schools” or contact Lauren Sandoval at LSandoval@EcoAddendum.org.

Thanks to everyone who helped us have very successful events last week.

With your support $117 was raised for Environmental Education

and 62 native plants are going back into

our Georgia landscape.

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EcoAddendum’s Native Plants
Open House
on
November 4, 2010
4:00 p.m. –9:00 p.m.

The Druid Hills High School Environmental Club and the BBB have team up to create their Native Plant Outdoor Classroom. After 3 years of set backs due to construction the clearing of the space and construction on the benches began last weekend. Friday, October 29th is our next big workday. Students will spread compost and lay jute cloth to protect the hillside from erosion.

We are looking forward to lots of progress in preparation for the November 12th planting of the native shrubs and vines.

Images on the homepage that link to the school pages.

Click on the image to download the Monarch Butterfly Coloring page!

Enveloped and encouraged by bountiful sunshine and moderate temperatures, the excited members of Westlake High School’s Earth Tomorrow Club broke ground on their 500 square foot Pride Lands garden located on the south side of campus. The day’s activities included amending the soil within the perimeter of the space and developing the layout and design of the new garden. Bird Butterfly and Bee Coordinator Lauren Sandoval, our Nursery Manager Hilary Nichols, and I began by giving the attentive students a short lecture on the safety and handling of the required tools. We separated into two groups: one would design the garden’s layout and the other would begin amending the soil. Soil amendment is the addition of organic material to enrich the existing soil that may have not been suitable for required growing conditions for specific types of plants. In this case, we mixed in a truckload of compost to loosen and prepare the soil to receive the types of native plants going into the garden. With the Georgia sun shining down on us, we took our time during water breaks to revel in our progress and thoroughly enjoy the beautiful day.

When arranging native plants in a garden, it is important to know that the selection of plants is based on the conditions of the soil moisture content and amount of light in a day’s time. Throughout the day, the students began to understand this fundamental need to assimilate the plants into the garden according to their specific conditions. Eager to construct and complete the design, the students came up with two practical models of how they would like their Pride Lands garden to look.

At the end of the hour, all the soil amending and garden designing came together. Each student walked away with the enjoyment of the day’s activities and a sense of pride at what they just achieved together. Next week, our outdoor work will continue with the Pride Lands Planting! We are excited for another successful day of working outside and getting our hands dirty.

It was a cold February day outside, but, inside the walls of Westlake High School (WHS), thoughts were in full bloom about native plants and pollinators.  The student members of the WHS Earth Tomorrow Club teamed up in groups of three and began their “Plants with a Purpose” research on native plants.  They answered such questions as: “What kind of conditions do native plants thrive in?” and “what wildlife and pollinators do the native plants support?”

The students did an excellent job asking essential questions and working together to further their knowledge about the native plants they will soon be planting in their garden.

Sarah Collman, EcoAddendum’s Artscapes Program Educator,    helped the students to use their newly discovered knowledge of native plants to create observation inspired relief prints.  Some students were interested in native plant images, while others used images of insects and pollinators.

The students were excited to learn this new process and create their own works of art.  It was an afternoon filled with native plant education, paint, and smiles. Thanks to all the Earth Tomorrow Club members and Mr. Hoge, the club sponsor, for all their hard work during this activity.

Photographer: Cecilia Marrero

By: Dan Louis
Earth Tomorrow President
Westlake High School
Class of 2010