What: Trafalgar School Garden Work Party part 2
When: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:00 PM
When: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:00 PM
Where: Trafalgar Elementary School
4170 Trafalgar Street
Vancouver, BC V5K 0A1
4170 Trafalgar Street
Vancouver, BC V5K 0A1
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ome and help the teachers, parents and other volunteers at Trafalgar Elementary School to implement the second phase of their permaculture school garden. We will be sheet mulching and planting a cover crop around the 11 subirrigated planters that were built during the first work party (the green and pink areas in the diagram). These areas will eventually become fertility beds (green) and host a wide diversity of nectary plants to attract and keep beneficial insects in the garden (pink).
The sheet mulch will be used as a soil remediation technique (the garden is being planted on a gravel field) in combination with soil loosening and ground cover planting.
The work party will be from 1pm to 5pm at the school. Stay as long or short as you like.
We are also looking for the following tools and materials to build the sheet mulch and condition the soil. If you have a tool or materials from the list below and would like to come help out, please bring it along!
Tools/Materials we need to build the sheet mulch:
- cardboard (especially from large boxes)
- newspaper
- utility knives
- garden forks
- work gloves
