Fonterra Grassroots fund - Tunnel house/Worm farms

Last year the Gore Main School Envirogroup applied to the Fonterra Grassroots fund for financial assistance towards a new tunnel house and worm farms.  The Fonterra Grassroots funding committee approved a sum of money and Gore Main School was able to purchase a tunnel house and more worm farms!  This is incredibly exciting for the Envirogroup because it means we can now start growing and propagating our own seedlings to sustain our gardens.  Our goal is also to provide seedlings or plants to different community organisations and we are working towards this.  The children watched the tunnel house be erected and were directly involved in putting the gravel and mats in to begin the new enterprise.  It has been hard work but our tunnel house is up and we look forward to adding more value to it with surrounding beautification as we move forward.  We can also feed future seedlings and plants with worm juice that our (fat and juicy) worms are producing!  Thank you Fonterra Grassroots fund!

Beginning to construct the tunnel house

Starting to take shape...

Looking more an more like a tunnel house!

Working inside to complete the tunnel house!

Putting in fill to level up the tunnel house

Gore Main School Envirogroup working together

Get that floor level!

The tunnel house and new working table to do our potting and growing

Looking good

Feeding birds

On our vision map it indicates that we would like to have more birds in and around our environment at Gore Main School!  As part of our new garden in our school, which is full of native plants, we decided to put in a bird feeder to attract birds!  The timber and time to make the bird feeder was donated to the Envirogroup!
Awesome!  Room 7 also decided that bird feeders would be a good technological project.  They designed their own bird food by researching recipes and then they made bird feeders out of recycled products.  It has increased the amount of birds in our school!  We have waxeyes eating off the bird feeders every day!

The bird food and feeders that Room 7 designed to attract more birds!  It has worked!  Well done Room 7!

The new bird feeder in the native garden.