Water as needed

Lately, our 3rd grade students teamed up with Mrs. McKinley's biology class and Mrs. Wyman's highschoolers to plant wild flowers by the rocks at Sparta High School.

Our Sparta Village planted 31 maple trees along W. Spartan drive, heading up to the high school.

I am looking for some interested volunteers to help water the newly planted trees and wild flowers throughout the summer.  You can contact me via email at sue.blackall@staff.spartaschools.org or at 887-8771.



Kids preparing the prairie before being seeded.



3rd Graders Performing Prairie Presentations

The purpose of the Prairie presentations is to teach the anwers to the following questions:
1. Why should we restore native habitats?
2.  How do native plants clean drinking water?
3.  Why are we restoring a prairie at Sparta High School?
4.  How can you get involved to help?

Here are some picture of our kids in action at Sparta Senior Center on May 10, 2012.

Pictures of Prescribed Burn 4/7/2012

 Special thank you to Sparta and Kent City Fire Departments, Tessa Tape, Cardno-JFNew, Paul Rogers, Steve Cross, for having a prescribed burn.  The praire could not happen without it!  (Photographs by Wendall Wilson, photographer, and firemen's meal from McDonalds).

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Prescribed burn

Very exciting!  We have funds to pay for Jack McGowan-Stinski to be the burn boss for the prescribed burn that will happen on the prairie site.