Media release: Students and community dig in to create two rain gardens at Adamsdale P.S.

Volunteers, including a crew from Planet Earth Organic Landscaping, prepare a garden site (photo by Lilly Noble)

The two new rain gardens at Adamsdale Public School (photo by Naomi Grant)

Clover planted with a seed dance with the kindergarden students sprouts next to the back rain garden (photo by Naomi Grant)

The whole school came out to dig, plant, water and mulch the new gardens (photo by Naomi Grant)

Students and community dig in to create two rain gardens at Adamsdale P.S.

Gardens help protect Ramsey Lake while beautifying school yard

Sudbury, June 24, 2013 – Buds are bursting, and butterflies are already to be seen at two new gardens at Adamsdale Public School, put in by enthusiastic students with the support of the community.  These gardens are special.  They are rain gardens, installed as part of Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury’s Rain Gardens and Rain Barrels project. 

Rain gardens are beneficial because they absorb water from impervious surfaces to reduce flooding, filter pollutants from water before reaching waterways, help recharge the aquifer, and provide beneficial wildlife habitat for bees, birds and butterflies.  Adamsdale Public School is excited to be doing its part to help keep Ramsey Lake clean and healthy.  “The rain garden is a tremendous addition to our school yard,” say Adamsdale staff.

Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury is joined by many community partners on this project, including Adamsdale P.S., Our Children Our Future, Ramsey Lake Stewardship Committee, Minnow Lake CAN Restoration Group, Sudbury Horticultural Society, Master Gardeners, and the Greater Sudbury Watershed Alliance.

Special thanks go out to:

• The students and staff of Adamsdale P.S. for their enthusiasm and hard work digging, planting, watering, mulching and seeding!
• The crew of Planet Earth Organic Landscaping who donated soil and pitched in to prepare the garden site
• All of our volunteers, with extra thanks to master gardener Linda Hachez for all her contributions, and her special project growing tomatoes with the students.
• Our grantors TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, and RBC Blue Water Grant, and our other funders Councillor Terry Kett (HCI funding) and Greater Sudbury Watershed Alliance.  Thanks also to Southview Growers.

Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury encourages all residents to join them in their Rain Gardens and Rain Barrels project to help our lakes and waterways be clean and healthy for the long term.  For more information, see liveablesudbury.org.

About Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury – we are a grassroots network of citizen groups and individuals who share a vision of Sudbury as a green, healthy and engaged community. Our work includes research, education, advocacy, and action.  We also act as a network connecting like-minded community groups and individual citizens to share information and work together.  Members include over 400 individual citizens, as well as a wide range of local community groups. For more information, please contact us at clsudbury@live.com, call (705) 691-5538 or visit www.liveablesudbury.org.