One More Rain Garden on its Way to Growing: A Day in the Planting of a Garden
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
By 9:30 in the morning at Thomas Chalmers Specialty School, it was about seventy degrees, sunny and beautiful. The week before, workers removed the slab of asphalt that covered about an 1800-square foot plot, now replaced by a thick patch of mulch—ready and waiting for planting. On this Friday morning in June, thirty-five 6th and 7th grade students joined Baxter International and CNT staff to plant the recreated space with 500 native plants. For a few students, this was even their very first time handling plants.
