Middle School Students Go Cat-tailing (and more)

This year some of the 6^th grade service projects focused on the outdoor spaces on campus.  Excited about spending the day in the Preserve some students had the fun of Cat-tailing (cutting and piling dead cattails from the preserve  and piled in the woods to decompose) a process designed to curtail the monoculture and make access to the ponds.  The tightly compacted soil around the birch trees in the preserve was aerated with kid power and hand rakes with some students hauling leaf detritus in paper bags to the woods to decompose.  Other students planted flowers outside the dining hall and acorns were collected around the quad for Project Acorn, Middle School Green Ambassadors project where  oak trees are grown from felled acorns on campus to give to each senior at graduation as a remembrance of their roots here at GA.