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Welcome
to the da Vinci Water Garden
PULL, PRUNE & GET
MUDDY!
OUR FALL CLEAN UP WAS A GREAT
SUCCESS!
Our next official clean-up will be
in the spring.
Our staff coordinator for the
Water Garedn is Life Science teacher Jason
Hieggekle.
On the Southeast corner of our school building sits
an amazing garden designed and built by students, parents and
community members. The garden was designed to filter
runoff water from some of our school buildings and channel
it to the water table instead of the sewer system.
There are many elements to the garden.
Including a pond, pathways, a bioswale, a small greenhouse, an
ampitheater, a
solar panel and a cob gazebo. The
garden's full specifications are here.
The
garden has become a living lab for our science and art classes
providing specimens to study and draw, a place to perform and a
place to display art. Click here for an
indepth explanation.
Dan Evans, the now
retired Science teacher that was the leader on this project
started keeping a blog in the fall of 2009. Click
here to see pictures and thoughts from him about the
garden.
An early article about the
garden.
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