Middle and high school students throughout Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) spent Earth Day weeding, shoveling wood chips, planting bio retentions, building flower beds and clearing vines at A. Mario Loiederman Middle School and Weller Elementary School.
1.000 volunteers, including students, MCPS staff and volunteers from Habit for Humanity and other organizations, spent Monday creating the school district’s Resilience, Education, Action, Climate, Habitat (REACH) urban farm.
The day was an asynchronous learning day for students, and many chose to spend their out of school time helping out at the two schools in Silver Spring.
The REACH Hub was developed by MCPS in partnership with the Charles Koiner Conservancy for Urban Farming in Silver Spring.
When everything is built and the plants ripen, the hub is expected to support food production, climate resilience and provide an accessible resource for more than 17,000 students in 20 MCPS schools that are within two miles of the schools.
On #EarthDay we joined MCPS and Charles Koiner farm for the Resilience, Education, Action, Climate, Habitat (REACH) Hub groundbreaking ceremony at Loiederman MS in Wheaton. The program will support food production & climate resiliency, serving over 17K students from 20 schools!💚 pic.twitter.com/hNxuxLGXHV
— Natali Fani-González (@NataliFGonzalez) April 22, 2024
Starting Earth Day with the creation of an urban garden at Loiederman Middle School by students from most MCPS high schools. @mymcmedia @MCPS pic.twitter.com/OOyK5Jbeaa
— suzanne pollak (@SuzannePollak) April 22, 2024
This #EarthDay24, @mcps students are building garden beds & benches! Super excited about the urban garden at Loiderman MS & Weller Road ES. Thank you, @MontgomeryCoMD, MoCoEPA, Green Bank, Pepco, @Habitat_org and many other agencies for the joint effort. #outdoorclassroom pic.twitter.com/iyc4XWzT52
— Julie Yang (@JulieYangMoCo) April 22, 2024
