5-21 Update

Another Harvest of Great, 

Healthy, Self-Grown Food!

 

The club! Ana, Miss Merani, Maggie, Lexie, Aduesuwa, Christian and Jane with 

our new harvest from our UA community garden; all grown from organic seeds!

This was my share- delicious greens sauteed for dinner! - Miss Merani

Check out this beautiful beet grown from organic seeds!

Our Mushrooms are Growing!

Thanks to Back to the Roots Company, we have beautiful gourmet mushrooms grown from recycled coffee grounds: check out their website to order some of your own! : http://www.backtotheroots.com

Good Afternoon Permaculture followers!

We have lots to update you on!

The progress of the garden is BLOOMING!  It's spring time and our garden is soaking it up!

And now the lemon growing on the lemon tree, Thomasina!

And our Back To the Roots Mushrooms are growing! 

We will be having a meeting to vote for new club officers, pick a new hip club name, and pick all those lovely veggies out in the garden on Monday, May 13th after school in room 135.

April 26th 2013 Harvest!

Great News!  

We have a full harvest to donate!

We will be donating this harvest to the Missionaries of Charities convent in Oak Cliff later today!

 Here we have our full harvest of radishes and turnips as well as lettuce, spinach, and arugula! 4-26-13

The Club: Alex, Kate, Adesuwa, Miss Merani, Tori, Maggie, Paige, Isabel, and Mary Francis

Our President, Sara Aranda, stands proudly in the middle, wearing a green Permaculture club shirt

Thanks for all your support & keep coming back for more updates!

Earth Day Dallas 2013 Update: April 22, 2013

Earth Day Dallas 2013

a Success!

Ursuline Academy's Permaculture Awareness Club attended the Earth Day Dallas Festival this weekend on Saturday, April 20th and Sunday, April 21st at Fair Park.  

I heard a little girl read this sign slowly and then turn to her mom and say

"Yes Please! We can play in the grass here, Mommy!"

At the UA Academic Booth!

Our booth featured three of our Sustainability awareness projects at 

Ursuline, including education about: The LEED certified buildings on campus, 

The UA Permaculture Awareness Club and thus the campus garden, and our 

Environmental Science classes and projects that are done at Ursuline.

Karla, Lexie, Lindsey, Mary and Tristan at the UA Academic Booth!

Tori, our club's senior treasurer, explains answers to sustainability 

questions asked by Christ the King 6th graders at UA's academic booth.

UA Permaculture club members laugh at a funny antidote by 

senior Mary Francis, our club's vice president and funny-story guru.

The girls at the end of Sunday's Earth Day festival in the booth area.

Outside of the booth, Into the festival!

Now for some pictures of the girls experiencing the festival.  Part of this weekend is not only to advocate for what we are doing on campus with sustainability issues, but also for the girls to go out into the festival and experience the sustainability education of other schools and companies.

Senior Helen Peace climbs trees with a group at the 

festival that climbs trees as a hobby!

Helen is having a blast!

These girls are soaking in the education piece of the festival.  Visiting colleges 

included information about their new Sustainability majors and programs, including

popular colleges such as UT, A&M, Stephen F Austin, TCU, Texas Women's and more!

Senior Mary Francis and Junior Karla Paredo were awarded trees after 

playing games in the festival with several different companies- prizes included

light bulbs, seeds, trees, and a variety of plants!

Above is the Home Depot center where our girls could paint pots and plant

a flower of their choice with other students.  Below shows some of our UA students' 

products from this expo; they are all bringing these plants home to care for!

Ursuline freshmen, Lauren, JoHanna, Sabrina, and Katie all won a t-shirt for

talking with the local news channel; they were featured on a news cast about

the event that aired Sunday night at 5pm.

Lauren, JoHanna, Mary Francis and Sabrina stand with Mother Nature and a Tree man, spotted

walking around the festival all day with other characters such as the Recycling Bin and a Drop of Water!

Thank you to all who supported our Ursuline girls

at Earth Day Dallas! As you can see, they had a blast!

- Miss Merani, April 22, 2013

update 4-15-13

Welcome to the 

Ursuline Academy Permaculture Club's 

April 15th Update!

*We have a baby lemon starting to grow

on our club's lemon tree, Thomasina!

Check out the first lemon of our tree! 4-4-13

*Coming up activity of the club:

We will be hosting a booth at Earth Day Dallas on April 20th-21st from 10 am-6 pm at Fair Park.

Stop by the festival to see several academic booths presenting their efforts to educate about sustainability, several different product booths selling sustainable goods, and a variety of companies showcasing their goals of future sustainability.

I will be putting pictures up of our experience next week!  

*On April 8th, the club Skyped with the Oakland-based "Back to the Roots" company:

"Back to the Roots" promotes sustainable garden products for the individual consumer, hoping to get more people growing their own food in their backyard and kitchen!

The club was able to connect with Jasmine Jackson, The Back to the Roots Community Happiness Guru.  We discussed perusing a career in sustainability related fields and learned about the lifestyle this company promotes!

Here are some pictures of our most-interesting talk with Jasmine over Skype!

Thanks Jasmine for all your great knowledge and willingness to promote sustainable living among the youth and educational systems!  We loved meeting you and look forward to working with you in the future! Thanks Back to the Roots for being so accessible as well!  Great company with a great mission!

Welcome to the 

UA Permaculture Awareness Club!

  Our April 2013 Calendar:

Our Garden is in the progress of GROWING!

UA Garden April 2/2013

***Look for updates on our crops in mid-April!***

Heads up Earth Day fans!
We will be present at Earth Day Dallas:  April 20th-21st, Fair Park, 10-6 pm each day!

February 7th 2013 Update

Wondering what this club is all about?  

At Global Issues day on January 30th, Miss Merani had two information sessions about our club and Ursuline's sustainability community.

Here is the February Calendar for the club:

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*Also the last week in February we will have a Monday after school meeting from 4-5: February 25th 

We had a harvest of carrots!

Mary Francis and Kate 

These carrots survived our crazy December/January weather in Dallas Texas.  

   

                                  Ana Perez- Secretary             Miss Merani- teacher mod.

Most of our winter crops froze the day after Christmas, but the club managed one large harvest before the freeze:

We were able to donate this basket to the Missionary of Charities Convent in Oak Cliff, Texas.

Check out our NEW projects:

Mushroom growing kit 

with BacktotheRoots (.com) - offering sustainablity products for our students (and cool ones for the home too!)

Back to the Roots Mushroom growing kits soaking in water over night- will keep you updated on it's growth

Dallas Earth Day academic booth

We will be at the festival informing everyone about UA's sustainability programs!  Come out and see everything!  Lots of vendors, education, and fun!

Earth Day Dallas information

More information to come on the club's progress soon!  

Planting Monday, February 11th for the early spring crops!