After a short snooze, we at SPACES are back with some interesting projects that we have finished in the past few months.
We had the opportunity to work with two schools who were inspired by the idea of showing their students some common, indigenous herbs and plant varieties that were available within our vicinity. The staff at one particular school specially stressed on the point about how children were completely ignorant of these plants, their existence or their use. We hope the children have been able to gain the experience we have tried to inculcate.
At AMM Matriculation School at Kotturpuram, Chennai, the available space was just the terrace and we had taken it upon ourselves to make the best use of the area. And to be able to give the children a wholesome experience at least in terms of the different species of herbal plants and its types.
Here’s a pot shot of the entire terrace herbal garden placed by us.
Here we have our creeper section of the herbs.
Our initial stage of the miniature garden-lawn-waterbody.
For Rosary Matriculation School, since we could work on the ground, we had created for them both a kitchen and a herbal garden in the assigned plot of land. We created a pebbled pathway in between where the students could walk through and observe the various plantations which we had labelled with their scientific and local identities. Here are a few glimpses of the same.
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- herbs around the tree at Rosary Matriculation – by SPACES
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- herbal garden patch at Rosary matric – done by SPACES
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- a view of the entire kitchen garden patch after the seeds are sown
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- bitter gourd
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- a close up of the vegetable creeper plant
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- creeper of the avarai plant
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- ridge gourd growing stages – peerkangai
“Seeing is believing” someone has rightly said. We hope we might have helped alter these students’ outlook a bit by introducing them to the food chain!
If you believe your school needs a concept such as this to exist ,then approach SPACES at gardeningredefined.com and get your ideas implemented through us!!
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