Workshops

Felipe, showing the teachers the red composting worms (Roja Coqueta).

Explaining how to make a tire garden.

Brainstorming lesson plan ideas that included the school gardens.

Seeds for the gardens, examples of library books, and disaster management materials.

Practicing the proper layering for a compost pile.

Tire garden!

Derc warmed everyone up in the morning with a little Tai Chi.

This year we organized three "beginning of the year" workshops and we finished the last of them this morning! Derc talked about inorganic trash management, Felipe (an agronomist from local NGO Asodisa) talked about green composting, and I talked about school gardens as a project. I always love workshops because it is so fun to have a big group of teachers all in the same room, laughing, chatting, and planning projects for the year. If you are interested in a more in-depth description of the Healthy Schools program that we are working with, click here and  here to previous posts.