JB Edwards ES has been selected as a pilot school for cafeteria plates made from sugar cane. Students and staff will send the compostable plates along with their other organic waste to be processed at Charleston County’s Bees Ferry commercial compost facility
Students learn from Tameria Warren how to weave plastic bags on a pizza box loom during STEAM night at Gadsden ES.
Students at Irmo High School are learning to propagate poinsettias under the leadership of volunteer Linda Byars.
JB Edwards ES was honored this week as a “Cool School” for their outstanding horticulture program.
https://www.counton2.com/news/cool-school/james-b-edwards-horticulture-program-takes-root-and-grows-fun-and-unique-educational-results/1761357503
During the months of January and February Springdale Elementary Beta Club members are making plarn.
How many monarch butterflies can you see in the milkweed planted in front of the campus hives at Sneed Middle School?
These dormant Milkweed plants have been acting as pollinators for two years in the JB Edwards ES’s pollinator garden. And the Milkweed plants in the pots are ready for Spring plant sales.
In September students at Oakview ES found both Monarch and Fritillary caterpillars in the very active Milkweed section of their habitat garden.
Elementary students at Harmony School test the health of the creek behind their school.
Students from JB Edwards ES teach us how their proper garden techniques help sequester carbon in the atmosphere.