Above: Emma Pouss, co -founder and managing director of Bee, opens her presentation on resilience gardens. Photo of Siddharth Gupa
By George Christie
With all the problems that affect our natural environments these days, I sometimes look for positive news to give myself a small charging in my work. Such charging recently came in the form of a dynamic group, which is known as a Bee, the Barrington Environmental establishment, an organization led by students at the Barrington High School. They searched for a spokesman to expand a program for resilience gardening, whereby the resilience garden systems were used as a model in the government complex of the city. Of course I was excited to be able to offer my support.
Bee embodies the attributes that we most wish in our high school students – leadership, innovation and a passion for a good cause. Since then, the non -profit organization has organized projects such as local tree sales, garbage cleansing and environmental art displays with the co -founder of Emma Pautz, Abigail Goblick and Siddharth Gupta. Her work was even recognized with a Presidential Environmental Youth Award! Like many people, they saw the damage to our environment, but they continued, they saw the damage and they acted.
Emma Pautz gave the primary presentation, which concentrated on the positive attributes of resistant gardening and made it possible for a step-by-step plan to design such a garden. As indicated on the Barrington Town website, “the [town resilience] Garden is designed in such a way that it is resistant to the effects of climate change, which at different times belong to hot, dry and moist conditions. It contains a variety of robust, locals and from the region, for which less irrigation, weeds, pesticides and fertilizers need more traditional gardens. The garden acts as a community resource to help and encourage residents to create their own and affordable resilience gardens. “Emma included intelligently intelligent that used these design ideas so that the participants could see how transforming such gardens are.
My job was to give tips for winter sowing local plant seeds, which I have been doing for many years and that I mentioned in previous articles. For many people, the costs for buying systems to start a resilience garden can be discouraging. In order to make things worse, despite a growing number of garden centers that produce real local plants (direct species, non -tissue -cultivated varieties), it can still be difficult to find the plants you are looking for. I emphasized the simplest seed types and the optimized planting system that I work well for myself. I always had the feeling that the winter seed has a bad reputation than too complicated, and for some seeds it can be quite complex, but many seeds do not differ from the planting of tomato seeds, they simply do it for a different season.
If you are interested, it is still time to plant local seeds for this year. The collaboration of the northeast seeds still has types such as Butterfly weed, blue Vervain, Schwarzäug Susan and Foxglove Pentonon, all of which should still work well. Their side of the seed is “in construction”, but the guide available by Prairie Moon Samen is pretty good.
From the immediate point of view, the resilience garden program set a small but receptive audience. From my point where I was sitting, the really inspiring part of the program was to see how these students identify a problem, formulate practical goals and work constructively to achieve these goals. I have always thought of environmental work as a marathon relay race, in which we, after we had received our truncheon from those who came before us, accept our battens when it comes to passing it on. I was lucky enough to support the work that does the bees in a small way, I am more sure that, if I also have to pass on my truncheon (still, people, not with a long shot!) I can be sure that There will be great people who are ready to wear it.
RESOURCES:
Further information on Bee: https://www.beenvironmental.org/
Received more information about the Barrington Resilience Garden
Northeast seed collective – Use ECO59 seeds for East Greenwich
https://www.northeastseedcollective.com/
Sowing instructions:
https://www.prairiemoon.com/pdf/germination-codes-sed-t-starting-basics-2-dec.pdf
