Crabapple Middle School Students to 'Go Green' Monday

Tomorrow won't be an average lecture about recycling for Crabapple Middle School studnets. It's hands-on. It will be dirty. It will be gross. It will be fun.   

At the end of the day, Monday, April 29, 317 sixth graders will have had a chance to walk around the globe (go inside the earth balloon) examine and then use worm poop for art and fertilizer, go through the cafeteria garbage from the week before (conduct a trash audit) and plant seeds in the school's organic garden.

And those are just four of the 15 stations that a student could cycle through on Go Green Day.  

CMS Go Green Day Chair Liz Rains scours the state for a wide variety of folks that are as passionate as she is for taking care of our planet and making it a healthier place to be. The goal is introduce concepts to students that are beyond recycling, get them to experience them first-hand and empower them to create their own solutions to some of the challenges we face in taking care of the environment.

More programs on the line-up include Renea Winchester author of the award-winning "In the Garden with Farmer Billy"  will be on site with her neighbor and friend, Roswell’s Farmer Billy to teaching students how to make "seed  starter pots" out of recycled material. Organic farmer and business owner Shannon Gowland leads tasting featuring grains such as quinoa. Honda is providing a hybrid and a traditional car and will talk about alternative energy and help facilitate an environment-friendly car of the future design challenge. Park rangers will conduct a stream testing, students will create and eat an edible landfill. The Kula Project folks will guide the kids to create hydroponic gardens  in two liter soda bottles using water and no soil. They will also help to create an irrigation drip in our Learn and Serve Garden. The garden produced more than 1,400 pounds of produce which the school donated to North Fulton Community Charities last year. 

Other programs will be provided by Chattahoochee Nature Center, Serv Organization, the Johns Creek Water Treatment Facility, Roswell Department of Public Works and the Keep Roswell Beautiful folks.