🪴 Where Little Gardeners Grow Big Ideas!🪴
Growing minds as we grow our garden
Join the Garden Club!
Join the Garden Club and get your hands dirty while growing something amazing! Students will dig, plant, and care for flowers, herbs, and vegetables right here at school. It’s a chance to explore nature, learn how plants grow, and make our campus more beautiful—all while having tons of fun outside with friends. Every month we will have a new lesson taught by our resident Master Gardener, Hunter, and we will have fun activities throughout the year, even in winter! Come grow with us in the Garden Club! 🌱🌻
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The ERE Garden fence pickets are available to paint!
(Posts are sold out)
How can I support the ERE Garden?
There are many ways you can support the garden!
- Reserve a fence picket or stepping stone to personalize for the garden. You and your children can pain it however you like, with your family name, school spirit, garden artwork or a positive message. It is a great way to create a beautiful garden for our kids! see below for details.
- Attend a Garden Community Event - We host several community events each year where you can come help with garden maintenance. Be on the lookout for those details in the eThursday Folder and PTA Press emails. These events are a fun and productive way to keep the garden looking good and build community with other families.
- Go pick up trash - unfortunately sometimes litterbugs leave trash in the garden, going with your kids to help pick up trash is a simple way to help!
- Want to make a financial impact? Email us and let us know if you'd like to donate money for garden supplies like new plantings, mulch, and maintenance needs.
Questions?
Please contact the garden committee at [email protected].
How can you reserve a fence picket? It’s simple!
STEP 1: Click below for your payment - and to reserve a fence picket (they are first come first serve!).
STEP 2: Once payment is complete, you will receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to get your picket to take home to paint.
STEP 3: Once painted, please return the fence picket to the garden committee (the garden committee will install the picket for you).
**IMPORTANT**
- You will paint reserved posts and pickets at home. However, most community garden events will also have the option to purchase and paint on site as part of the event.
- You will buy your own paint and paint it yourselves (please only positive messages). Unless you attend a community event where we offer a painting station.
- Please return your painted post or picket to the garden committee to put up in the garden or on the fence. Please do not add yours to the garden yourself.
- Once your post or picket is painted and installed, it will remain that way until the paint has worn off (could be many years depending on the paint). At that time the post/picket will be available for someone else to paint.
- Please contact the garden committee at [email protected] if you have any questions.
Examples of painted fence posts and pickets
These are examples of painted fence posts and pickets. You can paint the post or picket that you reserved anyway you like, such as with your family name, garden artwork, school spirit, and/or a positive message.
Additional Tips & Tricks...
- The post can be painted on all 4 sides. These will be used for bird houses. Note: they are currently sold out.
- The picket can be painted on one side, the back can be bare.
- Premium outdoor latex paint or artists' acrylic indoor/outdoor paint is best. Do not use washable paint.
- An 8oz size container of paint should cover the entire post or picket for your base coat. You will probably need to paint 2 or 3 times for complete coverage.
- You can use 2oz size containers of paint for the design in as many colors as you like.
- Once you have the base coat done, use chalk or pencil (that can be easily erased) to sketch out your design.
- Make sure to have a wide variety of brush sizes. Use the smaller brushes for more detailed areas.
- Bring paper towels and wet wipes to wipe off any drips or mistakes.
- Bring a cup of water for your dirty paintbrushes.
- Wearing rubber gloves will help keep your hands clean.
- Search online for design ideas, there are tons of them!
Have fun and take pride in your addition to the ERE garden!
Questions?
Contact the PTA - [email protected]
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