BOCES says: Grow your own!
NORWICH – “It’s time to grow your own!,” says the colorful brochure recently distributed throughout the DCMO BOCES Norwich campus community. The flyer describes the features and benefits of “Gro-Buckets,” a year-end project aimed at encouraging people to grow vegetables at home through some creative recycling.
The Gro-Bucket is a reusable mini container garden, made with recycled five gallon plastic pails obtained from Byrne Dairy in Norwich, filled with a planting soil mix and using shredded cardboard and newspaper materials for drainage and mulch. The soil mix includes some compost made on campus to help feed vegetable seedlings raised in the schools’ greenhouse. Gro-Buckets sell for $6 each and include a choice of seedlings: tomatoes, summer squash, salad greens, or mixed herbs.
Under the direction of Science Teacher Alan Rock-Blake, students throughout the school have been preparing buckets, mixing soil, and assembling and planting the containers. Heather Ayres, an adult student in the Visual Communications program, designed the sales brochure. Proceeds of the sale will benefit three student clubs at the school: Future Farmers of America, SkillsUSA, and National Technical Honor Society. Nearly 200 units have been sold and will be distributed by the end of the school year.
For more information about initiatives such as these taking place at the DCMO BOCES, please contact Stephen Perrin, Director of Career and Technical Education at 335-1234.
The Gro-Bucket is a reusable mini container garden, made with recycled five gallon plastic pails obtained from Byrne Dairy in Norwich, filled with a planting soil mix and using shredded cardboard and newspaper materials for drainage and mulch. The soil mix includes some compost made on campus to help feed vegetable seedlings raised in the schools’ greenhouse. Gro-Buckets sell for $6 each and include a choice of seedlings: tomatoes, summer squash, salad greens, or mixed herbs.
Under the direction of Science Teacher Alan Rock-Blake, students throughout the school have been preparing buckets, mixing soil, and assembling and planting the containers. Heather Ayres, an adult student in the Visual Communications program, designed the sales brochure. Proceeds of the sale will benefit three student clubs at the school: Future Farmers of America, SkillsUSA, and National Technical Honor Society. Nearly 200 units have been sold and will be distributed by the end of the school year.
For more information about initiatives such as these taking place at the DCMO BOCES, please contact Stephen Perrin, Director of Career and Technical Education at 335-1234.
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