The Willmar Community Greenhouse is attracting more attention: It's featured on Minnesota Department of Education's homepage, Minnesota School Nutrition Association's homepage, and in a statewide presentation about new school nutrition regulations. Meanwhile, rotating groups of 5th graders toured Willmar Community Greenhouse this week, learning about the fresh, local produce being grown for the
Willmar Community Greenhouse
The Willmar Community Greenhouse has been up and running all season - providing healthy, fresh greens to the Willmar Senior High School only two blocks away. Their work was recently highlighted in the West Central Tribune. Read their story and watch their video here.
Lending Library
By Pakou Vue, WWG student The Westbrook-Walnut Grove Earth Y.E.S class is donating energy-monitoring devices to the Westbrook Public Library this Monday, March 19th. Visitors will be able to check out these devices with their library card, and will come with instructions on how to use them. We are calling this the "Lending Library". The devices that we have so far are: Heat sensors: Allow
Creative inventions. . . ACGC’s education event
In the central Minnesota town of Cosmos last Friday, a 2nd grader invented an "air" plane that didn’t use gas--it ran on just air. Call it the “grasshopper,” the student said. . . “because grasshopper can fly for a long ways too.” Members of the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City YES! team invested long hours and priceless creativity in developing active-learning modules for elementary students in their
Northfield Youth Speak about Sustainability
On Saturday, March 3rd, members of the Northfield Transition Youth/YES! Team along with other area youth met to address the question “how can Northfield have a sustainable future?” This meeting was a part of the monthly Transition Northfield Resilience Plan sessions and was led by the local youth. While enjoying a free, local, lunch the youth participated in a lively 2-hour discussion. This
Kilo-WHAT?
By Kasia Her, WWG student Recently the Westbrook Walnut Grove Earth YES! class performed an Energy Audit Project in our school. The high-school's energy usage was calculated by students who were each assigned five to eight different rooms in the school. In each room, students measured all electrical appliances using a kilowatt meter. A kilowatt meter is a device used to find the amount of