The Green Lake Elementary School PTA and Olallie Garden Club invite the Green Lake community to a workshop and work party at the school’s Olallie Native Garden.
Green Lake Elementary parents are using funding from the City of Seattle’s Neighborhood Matching Fund to improve the existing garden by making it accessible to kids with disabilities, adding an outdoor classroom for instructional activities and constructing sustainable elements to be enjoyed by the whole neighborhood.
The workshops and work party will be Saturday, July 31 and Sunday, August 1, 2010 at Green Lake Elementary School (2400 N 65th St).
Work starts at 9 a.m. and goes until 4 p.m. You are welcome to come for the whole day or as long as you can. Snacks and drinks will be be available and there will be supervised kid activities on the playground. Please bring a water bottle to minimize trash and be prepared to get dirty. If you can, bring garden or hand tools.
There will be two workshops:
“Green Roof” Garden Shed
Under the direction of carpenter Carl Berg of Viking Craftsman, volunteers will spend a weekend building the school’s new garden shed. Using reclaimed materials donated by Earthwise Architectural Salvage, the shed will incorporate a “Green Roof” that will be planted with grasses, herbs and sedums. The shed will also have a drainage system that will utilize a rain barrel, demonstrating water reclamation techniques for garden use.
Outdoor Classroom
A very large, labor intensive project, the Outdoor Classroom Workshop will last several days. Volunteers will start by building “Rammed Earth” benches. Contractors will then install a circle of pavers in the center that will tie into the gravel pathway. There will be a sustainable building expert on hand to instruct volunteers on how to build the forms, mix the earth and install the benches correctly. This would be a great project for kids to be involved with.
RSVP to olalliegles@gmail.com. In order to help organizers plan snacks, please indicate when you plan to participate.
