Planting and Harvesting at Banting
Throughout the year at Frederick Banting Alternative Program, we have strived to create a more eco-friendly school in order to preserve our environment. We have done so various ways, such as through our recycling program, through the tomatosphere experiment with Guelph University, via our assortment of gardens, by participating in “Adopt A Tree”, and through being active within our community with petitions. In addition to all of this, we have been quite diligent in educating our students on the state of our environment and how to preserve it, along with engaging them in being apart of the local biosphere with projects such as harvesting maple syrup from local sugar maples and norwegian maples, and growing a variety of plants.
Planting at Banting
At Banting we have started an array of planting initiatives, which have been involving students in the school, even if they are not currently enrolled in a biology or environmental science course. Such things include the previously mentioned Tomatosphere project, gardening in our vegetable garden, gardening within our Indigenous Reconciliation Medicine Wheel Garden, planting and sustaining our monarch garden, and growing plants in class. We do this to raise awareness for the habitat and nature around us, in hopes that maybe by educating people and showing that we care, will guide other onto the same path, and hopefully through a domino effect, more people will try to save the environment. Equally, this is why it is important to plant and reduce waste and take care of the environment - because if we do it, others will too, and just maybe the CO2 emissions will reduce, maybe more vegetation will grow, maybe more wildlife will be present in communities, and perhaps people will begin to care about the pollution and waste they are causing, and strive to make a difference, and perhaps even join us in planting milkweed for monarch butterflies, or in picking up litter, or even in signing our petition that is asking for larger recycling labels so that more plastics can be reused instead of accumulating in the ocean or in landfills.
Throughout the year at Frederick Banting Alternative Program, we have strived to create a more eco-friendly school in order to preserve our environment. We have done so various ways, such as through our recycling program, through the tomatosphere experiment with Guelph University, via our assortment of gardens, by participating in “Adopt A Tree”, and through being active within our community with petitions. In addition to all of this, we have been quite diligent in educating our students on the state of our environment and how to preserve it, along with engaging them in being apart of the local biosphere with projects such as harvesting maple syrup from local sugar maples and norwegian maples, and growing a variety of plants.
Planting at Banting
At Banting we have started an array of planting initiatives, which have been involving students in the school, even if they are not currently enrolled in a biology or environmental science course. Such things include the previously mentioned Tomatosphere project, gardening in our vegetable garden, gardening within our Indigenous Reconciliation Medicine Wheel Garden, planting and sustaining our monarch garden, and growing plants in class. We do this to raise awareness for the habitat and nature around us, in hopes that maybe by educating people and showing that we care, will guide other onto the same path, and hopefully through a domino effect, more people will try to save the environment. Equally, this is why it is important to plant and reduce waste and take care of the environment - because if we do it, others will too, and just maybe the CO2 emissions will reduce, maybe more vegetation will grow, maybe more wildlife will be present in communities, and perhaps people will begin to care about the pollution and waste they are causing, and strive to make a difference, and perhaps even join us in planting milkweed for monarch butterflies, or in picking up litter, or even in signing our petition that is asking for larger recycling labels so that more plastics can be reused instead of accumulating in the ocean or in landfills.
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