Marina Orth Foundation School Garden Project

The Marina Orth Foundation Created a project on 2013 to fit with their existing Step by Step Project which focuses on English, Technology and Leadership.

One of the original purposes of the Step By Step Project was to promote the development of skills in our students to give them the necessary characteristics to compete in today’s society. With this in mind, the School Gardens project will fit with our existing educational objectives and will also promote understanding of how to care for the environment and use it in a sustainable manner.

The Marina Orth Foundation implemented the School Garden Project in all the three schools in Colombia where the Step by Step project its taking place.

The School Garden is an afterschool program which involved students of all the different grades and ages. One of the main Objectives of this project is to teach the students environmental awareness by creating an Organic School Garden.

The school garden has been a total success so far thanks to the enthusiasm and the effort of the students and the members of the Marina Orth Foundation. In general all the goals planned have been accomplished in all the different schools, the main goals were to have the soil prepare, create germinators with seeds, transplant the baby plants to the soil and the most important the preparation of the organic insecticides to protect our garden from pest.
 

Preparing the soil

Creation of Germinators

Transplanting the baby plants in the soil

Preparation of organic insecticides