Email seeds@waynewoodpta.org if interested in joining the committee or if you have any questions or comments.

 

Fall 2024 Workday Schedule

All workdays are after school from 4 to 5:30pm.

Friday September 20th

 

2023-2024 Projects and Programs

• Install Little Library!  Looking for a family or group that can assemble and install the Little Library!
• Install compost area signs (volunteers requested!)
• Install fencing or edging around the shade & pollinator bed.
• Continue removing the landscape fabric in the pumpkin patch area.
• Continuation of the Garden Club enrichment program
• Author and Illustrator will visit with Grade K-3 on Wednesday May 1st.

 

Any questions or need further information, please reach out to our SEEDs committee chairs Rochelle and Erin at seeds@waynewoodpta.org 

 

Thank you for your continued PTA support!

 

2022 – 2023 Projects and Programs

• Planted produce donated by Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture. The Waynewood Elementary School Garden Club harvested & donated produce to United Communities food bank & to Groveton Baptist’s weekly food distribution.
• Constructed two compost holding bins with funds awarded to SEEDs from a Community Forklift grant.
• Repaired damaged raised beds.
• Installed signs in the pollinator bed.
• Pruned the trees & bushes.
• Spread 20+ cubic yards of mulch in the courtyard & throughout the school grounds.
• Prepared the progressive pumpkin patch.
• Organized the sheds.
• Provided supplies to teachers to make grade-level raised bed signs.
• WEEDED!!

 

Programs offered:

• The PTA Enrichment Committee was able to offer the Waynewood Garden Club.
• Hosted hot chocolate in the courtyard during the bookfair.
• Hosted Grade-level planting activity with Juan Pablo Echeverria, Outreach & Education Manager at Arcadia Farm.
• Hosted Kindergarten basil seed planting & garden lesson also with Juan Pablo Echeverria.
• Began collecting compostable items like apple cores & banana peels from students during lunch.
• Hosted a chicken party with Mrs. Hanson & Courtney Nelson’s chickens.
• Author Flora Ahn shared her book A Spoonful of Time.
• Hosted a monthly Garden Club of Waynewood weeding & social workday.

 

 

 

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On April 12, Arcadia Farm helped with a spring planting day in the courtyard!  Check out the pictures below!