The Sustainable Resources 12 class has been putting in some time at the Midway Community Garden this spring, helping Dick Dunsdon and Anna Anderson to get the garden ready for the season.
The class has planted asparagus and transplanted some tomatoes, winter squash and watermelon that they had started from seed in the class’s greenhouse, which was moved over to the school shop area so it would be closer to water and power.
One big task they have helped with at the garden is burying the drip irrigation lines. Dunsdon said that he found the birds were pecking holes in the line during the dry part of the season last year.
“The kids have saved me a ton of work,” said Dunsdon.
Another project the class is working on is growing native grasses for use at the Boothman’s Oxbow Restoration Project just east of Grand Forks. The area is being restored to a natural park so the class is growing about 1,000 plugs of bunchgrass in their classroom.
Teacher Lisa Baia said that next year she hopes to get a sustainable hydroponics system going. It would be a complete aquaculture system including the fish.
This is the second year the Baia’s course has been offered at BCSS.