Making Self-Watering Containers

Buenos días everyone!

Gab robbing the garbage
to find materials for
self watering-containers.

Last Friday the students were waiting for us at 8am ready to start working. We decided we were going to start by moving the compost’s location, into a more sunny area. We all worked together: some people were shoveling the compost into buckets, others were transporting the buckets to the new located area and others were placing the compost into its new location. After the transferring part was done we needed to water the compost. At Ayala Campus they do not have hoses. However, they manage to use the river that is nearby. With the cleverest idea, they use tubes and connect them into the river for the water to flow in and out of the tube to water their plants. This is very sustainable: to use the most of what is accessible to us.  The tube is not long enough to get to the compost therefore the students filled up buckets with the tube and made a long human chain to carry the water to the compost. With teamwork the students achieve their goal successfully.

Transferring the compost.

Medicinal Garden!

Human chain to water the compost.

     











       While the students had to go to class Kendall and I went to help the Medicinal Garden team and dug as much as we could for them. It was boiling hot and the soil was very hard and rocky. The Medicinal group has worked all their gardening muscles this week digging and designing their garden. It is coming together quite nicely.

New design for the
medicinal garden.

Kendall ready to make
containers!

            

Getting dirty!

       When class ended, the students gathered all the materials they had collected for the self-watering container workshop and Oswaldo arrived to school with the heavy-duty tools. Students had brought; buckets, seeds, shovels and Victor (a students) even brought an avocado plant from his house to plant into the container. We all worked together in creating Ayala’s very first self-watering container. The students were very excited and proud to have built their first self-watering container. Next week they are ready to design and create their own self-watering containers. I believe we are all satisfied how greatly these projects are coming along. The students are always ready and motivated to get working. I can never say enough about how the students are so dedicated and inspirational. They make me proud and teach me a lot everyday about teamwork, plants, and compost. And not to mention, how loving and caring they are for their planet.

Our very first self-watering container!

Hasta luego,

Gab