Earth Day April 22nd

Big happenings at OCS this April 22nd. The school will be celebrating Earth Day and we need your help! Students, staff and volunteers will be creating a sheet mulch garden, a terraced garden, holding an Earth Day groceries art project, creating compostable pots, trash sorting, a water relay race and (hopefully) inviting a guest speaker.

There will also be a plant sale managed by one of the 7/8 advisory groups. The students will be selling the following 'garden ready' seedlings: radishes, beans, bottle gourds, squash, sunflowers, herbs, collards, onions and more.

With the efforts of parents Ilse Ackerman and Laura Cooper, the school has secured the donation of 9 15-gallon trees which will be planted throughout the campus.

So we definitely need parent volunteers! Middle school students will be running many of the stations along with their teachers; however it’s always good to have adults around to smooth the process. Half day volunteers can be brought on board but nothing beats a full day volunteer! We would need you from 10am – 2:30pm.

Material Donations
shovels** for soil and mulch transport and tree planting
wheel barrels** for soil and mulch transport
river rock for making the boarder to a new garden
large sheets of cardboard that are brown/unbleached, free of tape and ready to compost
lumber 2x8 planks of pine or redwood
**Please put your name on any tools that you want returned to you.

Monetary donations are also welcome. It allows us to buy anything that is not donated.
Please contact Daryl Bilandzija (Darylb@ocsmail.org) or Aaron Bergmann (AaronB@ocsmail.org) for more information.