Recent UW graduate, Lisa Haglund, worked with UWBG staff and faculty and teams of high school students to plant natives in rain gardens to control and clean stormwater run-off at CUH. Read Lisa's project narrative or visit the site.
Read more »GROW participants visit CUH and the UW Farm
May Fieldtrips The two days that GROW high school students visited CUH and the UW Farm were full of sunshine. Students from Susan Barth’s horticulture class at Nova High School and students from Jessica Torvik’s horticulture/ecology classes were introduced to resources for their GROW projects through scheduled tours and activities. Maggie Roses’ science classes from Ingraham focused on working with Lisa Haglund and Patrick Mulligan on the site prep and plant installation in the newly restored storm water garden at CUH.
Read more »Who are the G.R.O.W. participants? A profile of Nathan Hale students
hanging baskets lined up in greenhouse Students in Jessica Torvik’s Horticulture/Ecology classes meet in the Nathan Hale High School greenhouse on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. The new site for horticulture classes is a few minutes’ walk from the main school building, across the street and up the hill. As they arrive, the students take the initiative to begin doing tasks assigned to them in their working groups.
Read more »Garden-based Restoration and Outreach Workshops (GROW Program): An Introduction
Thanks to a grant from the Jiji Foundation the Garden-based Restoration and Outreach Workgroups (G.R.O.W.) Program was launched in January, 2011 and is actively engaged with three high school classes and one after school teen center program.
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