09 September 2013

Using bottles to make gardens at the elementary school in San Gerardo:



This is an event that helps the school to gain points towards earning the Bandera Azul (Blue flag) for Environmental Awareness. Each student brought in a bottle from home to help teach them that the things they are accustomed to throwing away or recycling can in fact be used in creative and useful and beautiful ways.



It was surprisingly exhausting work, cutting the bottles and threading them and mounting them on the wire fencing. All that after devising a way of getting the giant panel of wire fencing (I say wire, but it was really like solid iron rebar) rolled up and inserted through one of the 10-foot-off-the-ground windows of the greenhouse…. And by the end of the day we had still hardly scratched the surface of the bottles they’ve been accumulating. This school has bottles aplenty lined up to keep their garden going for an eon.



Once all work involving scissors and pointy edges has been done by us, the students will have the chance to fill their bottles with dirt and plant their lettuce and peppers inside.

The cool part about this is that I did the very same project in my own yard about 3 months ago (albeit still unfinished):

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