Student Council Meeting

Thanks to a mini-grant received from Spartanburg Soil and Water, CGS will be able to plant a new garden. The soil produced from the compost will help maintain the new garden and existing gardens on campus. Seventh and eighth grade members of  Student Council have approved a location for our new garden, the type of plants that will be used, and set a date and time for planting.

Yay! Donors Choose Supplies! =D

Our physical and chemical property soil kits finally arrived from our funded Donors Choose grant. We are so excited to use these to test our compost soil in the near future.

Engineering our Compost Bin!

We have prepared a compost area on campus made of free, reused wooden pallets. 

There have been three purposes in the lifetime of these pallets, thus far. They were first used by a flooring company to transport flooring supplies. Secondly, our teacher advisor's husband built tables for their outdoor, rustic wedding last year (see picture below). Now, they are enclosing our school's compost.

REDUCE - REUSE - RECYCLE

...AND COMPOST, COMPOST, COMPOST!

Repurposed pallet tables from the Morris wedding, 2014:

Our Donors Choose Project was funded!!!

JUST BEING A LITTLE TRASHY!

One of our custodians hooked us up with a compost bin for the cafeteria!

Special Visitor...

Ms. Stacey Mason with the Spartanburg Soil and Water Conservation District joined us during our team meeting today. She helped us with the direction and goals of the project.

Donors Choose Project Submitted

Today we created a student-led project through donorschoose.org. We requested supplies that will help us identify physical and chemical properties of soil. We also requested a digital pH meter and a digital thermomemeter.