Outdoor Learning Garden at Sacajawea Elementary School, April 2024
NEXT STEPS
Our next steps include building six wooden raised garden beds (13' x 5'8") and getting these in place. Yard N Garden Land donated soil for our raised beds, and we have several yards of that soil remaining.
UPCOMING DATES:
🍃Saturday, May 11th at 10 a.m.: Garden Work Party (following the 9 a.m. Campus Clean-Up)
We plan to have all the lumber for the remaining 6 garden beds on-site, ready for final cuts & garden bed assembly
We’ll load the garden beds with soil after they’re placed and ready!
If you’re comfortable cutting lumber, drilling, and building, we need YOU!
If you’re a whiz with a shovel and wheelbarrow, we need YOU too!
We will need volunteers to bring:
A saw/sawhorse setup for making the final cuts
Cordless drill with a set of drill bits and screwdriver attachment
Any other tools that you think would help as we assemble the six wooden garden beds
Wheelbarrows
Scoop shovels and/or flat shovels
You can also bring treats, beverages, or snacks to share after the Work Party!
🍅Saturday, June 8th at 10 a.m.: Garden Work Party (following the 9 a.m. Campus Clean-Up)
🌶️Summertime Support for the Garden: You can sign up to help water and tend the garden during summertime HERE.
Current List of Tools & Supplies Needed:
-Stay tuned!
Helpers Needed for the Following Tasks:
-Cutting and building six wooden raised garden beds to specification
Funds: Interested families and area gardeners can donate funds toward the project. Funds will support the purchase of additional garden needs, including:
Lumber for garden beds
Coated metal picnic tables for seating (4 included in the garden plan; approximate cost, $900 each)
Signs and plaques
Other needs identified as the project progresses
Email us at sacpta@yahoo.com if you are interested in helping! If you have a special skill or a specific item you'd like to donate, we can coordinate whether that meets a current need! (Updated 04-29-2024)
April 2024
Thank you so much to all of the families who helped in March and April 2024 with the Outdoor Learning Garden! Donations of metal garden beds, wood rounds, and labor from Sacajawea families and community members helped to make big progress in setting up the garden. We also received a generous donation of soil from our local nursery, Yard 'N Garden Land, for our garden beds! Thank you so much!
November 2023
The groundbreaking for this project took place in November 2023. We are so grateful for the great job that Vulcan Construction did, building the foundation for our new Outdoor Learning Garden. They also graciously donated a portion of the labor costs toward this project.
Outdoor Learning Garden Design
Jane Tesner Kleiner, landscape architect, of nature + play designs created the design for our new Outdoor Learning Garden. Given our school's connection to Sacajawea, the garden design was inspired by the longhouses used by many indigenous groups.
The O.G.! That is, Original Garden
Did you know that Sacajawea has a beautiful Native plant garden on the south side of the school? It features many Pacific NW native plants, including Bleeding Heart, ferns, flowering currant, and Oregon grape.