Garden educators Tessa Bundy and Kelly Morgan from Whatcom County Collectives, spoke at the Birchwood Neighborhood association meeting held May 25 at Birchwood elementary regarding the updates and plans for Birchwood elementary and Shuksan Middle schools Gardening projects. Bundy, who is assigned to the Shuksan project shared with the community the current $5,000 grant they currently received with the Native Habitats Grant. Starbuck who also funds the planting project with its organization Make Your Mark, helped the Shuksan group pay for their current fencing. Bundy said, “This project is created more for service learning, and that is why we are doing it.”
Followed right after Bundy was Morgan who is currently assisting with the Birchwood elementary project, the committee currently received the same grant as Shuksan from the Native Habitats Grant along with a $5,000 grant from Lowes. Currently around 300 students from Birchwood are working on a greenhouse and shelter to be placed near the school garden. Funds for this project are coming from Make Your Mark foundation with Starbucks Cooperation. Morgan also added the committee was going to start a new program; Garden Angels where volunteers would be paired up with low-income families and provide food for the families from the garden and through donations.
Plans for the plants grown in the garden are still trying to be incorporated into being served in the school cafeteria next year.
Learn more about the project and its donors by visiting:
Starbucks Make Your Mark:
http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/PageServer?pagename=HOM_GEN_SPLASH_Starbucks_new
Native Habitats Grant:
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2008/dec/27/grant-to-help-school-restore-native-habitats/
Birchwood Elementary:
http://birchwood.bellinghamschools.org/
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