April+13,+2011

Community Service – Hour 2 – Wednesday April 13, 2011

Today, the Meadow students were not outside with us because of standardized testing. To start, we went to the green house and took care of the plants. We watered the plants that were still growing, got rid of the hydroponic part of the dead plants, and found sticks to help the growing plants grow straight. The plants that are growing are doing well but the ones that were extremely spinally did not make it. Mr. Lewis is planning on just planting the seeds right into the ground since the hydroponics are not turning out the best as of right now. After we finished with the plants, we went into the meadow. Last week the Meadow students were helping rake out the larger of the meadow but did not get very far. Through out the last half an hour we were there, we got a good chuck of the meadow raked out. There were only three of us raking and two of us picking us the piles and bringing it to the compost. We discussed burning the other meadow instead of ranking it. Neither of us knew that every two years the meadows are suppose to be burned to help the re-growth of the plants and to increase the nutrients of the soil. The standardized testing has messed up our original schedule so we will not be able to be outside again until we do the river roots in the beginning of May. Hopefully the students get a lot accomplished and the plants start to grow in the regular soil.