Our gatherings are open to the public. We hope you’ll join us!
Join us for our September gathering at Keysor Elementary School in Kirkwood. Keysor earned the US National Green Ribbon School Award last year for sustainability, the highest honor a school can earn.
Wild Ones gave them a grant in 2017 to put a butterfly/bird garden in the front of the school. Last year Keysor added a bubbler to this garden as part of their Green Schools Quest. In addition to the front garden, they have numerous gardens in the back including a sensory garden, bird sanctuary, a prairie, food garden, 2 big MSD rain gardens and beehives. They also have a solar-powered greenhouse (the K house) for STEM activities.
The school follows Project IDEA (imagine, discover, explore, adventure) to build sustainable and inclusive outdoor space. Their mission is to have a living landscape schoolyard serve as an outdoor extension of the school with no steel or plastic structures.
This will be a great opportunity to see the role schools are playing in teaching youth about sustainability. Don’t miss it!
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