This Saturday, September 20th, the Sunnyside Elementary School parent volunteers will have a Green Up Clean Up day to spruce up our school garden and do a few school beautification projects from 9am to 1pm. They are looking for help from neighbors to make it an even better space for students, many of which reside in our community.

You can bring the kids as well as friends! Last year, many kids joined garden clean ups and were put them to work! If they are not so much into it: they can bike or play in the school yard. Kids are welcome and can be helpful.

Things they plan to do:
– Move benches around the school. Sunnyside was awarded a grant to add some benches around the school yard. Those benches have been delivered but now they are all hanging out in our school garden and need to be moved to better places all around the yard where they will be used. Come help us move the benches!
– trim down the garden and weed. All summer long, the garden grew and it’s gotten a bit unwieldy. We will remove some older plants and trim down those that have grown too large.
– Build a new raised garden bed. We are slowly working a new plan to renovate the garden and taking it step by step. We would love to use some newly donated wood to build a second raised garden bed. This may require some advance preparation but we can try to be ready for this project by 9/20.
– Many of us want to replant that area in front of the school that’s a bit barren now. If we can get a few willing to take this on, we could tackle this.
-Reorganize a storage shed. There is a storage shed on campus full of garden tools. Let’s get them out and sort through them, see what’s useful and what’s not.
– Even if you don’t want to join this event, we welcome donations! Seeds, small pots, garden soil, compost, plants and cuttings are all very welcome.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Jamie Patton at japatton@gmail.com or 415-302-1179. Thank you in advance for helping make our neighborhood school even better!