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  • Metwest High School
  • Oakland, CA
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households

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My project involves introducing carbon gardening to my students in order to teach them how excess carbon can be removed from the earth's atmosphere and be stored in the soil where carbon will facilitate plant growth, especially in our veggie garden. Carbon gardening involves implementing carbon-friendly gardening practices such as adding shredded leaves to the natural soil, no-till or conservation tilling for minimal soil disturbance, cardboard sheet mulching, applying wood chips, composting, and using cover crops as ways of sequestering carbon into the soil. Because soil contains 10 times the amount of carbon than is in the atmosphere, carbon gardening is a potential solution so slow down climate change. In summary, by acquiring a shredder/chipper, worm castings as well organic garden soil, I will be able to teach students how adding organic matter back into the garden’s soil will 1) improve the quality of the natural soil, 2) make the garden more productive, 3) help offset greenhouse gases, 4) aid in sequestering carbon back into the soil, 5) speed up the composting process, and 6) show in a real way how we are doing our part to slow down climate change.

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My project involves introducing carbon gardening to my students in order to teach them how excess carbon can be removed from the earth's atmosphere and be stored in the soil where carbon will facilitate plant growth, especially in our veggie garden. Carbon gardening involves implementing carbon-friendly gardening practices such as adding shredded leaves to the natural soil, no-till or conservation tilling for minimal soil disturbance, cardboard sheet mulching, applying wood chips, composting, and using cover crops as ways of sequestering carbon into the soil. Because soil contains 10 times the amount of carbon than is in the atmosphere, carbon gardening is a potential solution so slow down climate change. In summary, by acquiring a shredder/chipper, worm castings as well organic garden soil, I will be able to teach students how adding organic matter back into the garden’s soil will 1) improve the quality of the natural soil, 2) make the garden more productive, 3) help offset greenhouse gases, 4) aid in sequestering carbon back into the soil, 5) speed up the composting process, and 6) show in a real way how we are doing our part to slow down climate change.

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