At the recent SELS Board of Director’s meeting on April 13th, the board approved a plan to implement a school garden in the field of dreams. SunMie Won submitted a 3-phase proposal – phase 1 will start this spring of 2015 and go through the summer.

The first phase is a trial of the site itself: sunlight, access to water, critters, and the difficulty in managing the garden during the prime growing season while school is out of session.

We’ll be trying a technique using straw bales as planters for the first phase. This is a quick way to get planter beds up and running and produces compost that can be rolled right into beds for the next growing season.