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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.
You can contact him at jhieggel@pps.k12.or.us.

statue.jpgOn 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.

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 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.

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An early article about the garden. fern.jpg                                  gazebo.jpg                             yellowflower.jpg

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da Vinci Arts Middle School
2508 NE Everett Street | Portland, OR 97232
Phone: (503) 916-5356 | Fax: (503) 916-2721 | Voice Mail: (503) 916-3173