Mulch Mountains with Cooper Elementary School
Last week we had a blast with Cooper Elementary School. We were able to host every class in the school, K – 5, for half an hour to an hour. We went over local environmental issues with the classes, talking about the differences between native and invasive plant species, and comparing invasive removal and sheet mulching to getting a cut, cleaning it out (removing the invasive plants), and putting a band-aide on it (sheet mulching). Despite the young age of many of our Cooper students, all were still able to help and participate in doing some restoration work. Over 4 days we maintained approximately 1500 sq. ft. of Blackberry, and sheet mulched approximtely 4,000 sq. ft.! The kids really got into it, with many of the teachers commenting that they’d never seen their students work so hard. Buckets and mulch mountains = happy kids.
Joining Cooper on Thursday was a home school group, who also really enjoyed helping us with the sheet mulching.
Saturday buphalo hosted a successful work party of 13 volunteers, many who were coming out for a repeat visit to the Greenbelt. They removed 1400 sq. ft. of ivy at our 14th and Holly St. location while listening to Dean on percussion.
