Bellevue Santa Fe Charter School

Project Title: Bellevue Santa Fe Charter School Tree Planting

Project Description: Beginning in 2007, OneCoolEarth worked with students, teachers, and staff at Bellevue Santa Fe Charter School to organize a campus improvement project intended to replace the school’s dying pine trees.  The project began with the students raising young oak trees in a small on-site nursery near their organic garden.  By the Fall of 2008, the school’s young trees were ready to plant, along with a variety of other’s provided by OCE.  Engaging an army of student and parent volunteers, black walnut, canyon oak, tan oak, live oak, cork oak and redwoods were planted in the shade of the dying trees.

OCE Work History:

Fall 2007 – nursery started

Fall 2008 – trees planted

Project Status: monitoring

Updates:

7/29/2009 – Stopped by to check on trees.  Counted 55 trees altogether doing very well.  Possibility of additional planting.