Planet Garden 2nd Annual Earth Day Thomaston
Be Bright Go Green Earthday Thomaston
Planet Garden Earth Day Thomaston Event on Earth Day Network
Click here to visit the Earth Day Thomaston Victory Garden Party event listing on Earth Day Network.
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Planet Garden Celebrates Earth Day Thomaston at Bluebird Victory Garden Party
Join us for Earth Day Thomaston outside in the Bluebird Victory Garden at the old R.C. Cola Building, 215 Barnesville Street. Thank you to everyone making this event a success.
On Earth Day, April 22, come by anytime after school from 3-5 and join Recycle Man as we sing songs, win prizes, and plant wildflowers from the GA Forestry Commission. Greet the FFA officers and order your copy of, the soon to be released, FFA: Victory Garden Cookbook. After students enjoy vege and Hawaiian pizza’s given by Domino’s, Thomaston Scouts will recycle the pizza boxes to make solar ovens for Solar S’mores. Come join the fun and celebrate What a Wonderful World.
Planet Garden Enjoys Charlie Brown Playing Ball in a Victory Garden
Click here to see the victory garden planted in Part 2 of Charlie Brown Arbor Day.
Click here to see the victory garden ballgame in Part 3 of Charlie Brown Arbor Day.
Planet Garden will Plant a Tree for Arbor Day April 24th
Tree Gator slow release watering bags are used in Thomaston, GA
Click here for 6 easy steps on how best to plant a tree.
Tree Banker is working in a major way for rainforest conservation.
Thank you Thomaston for recently planting trees on Goodrich Avenue! The use of Tree Gator as slow release watering bags is ideal to better sustain young trees growing in our middle Georgia climate.
Click here to learn fun ways to celebrate Arbor Day in your classroom, home or community.
Click here for an online tree identification guide –(scroll down).
Click here for Arbor Day Classroom.
Click here for Kids to visit Carly the Cardinal online.
TREE MUSKETEERS was launched in 1987 by third graders as the nation’s first youth environmental organization–a nonprofit charity where kids are boss!
Planet Garden Fun Recipe to Celebrate Earth Day: Solar S’mores
Make a Solar Oven in a recycled pizza box lined with aluminum foil
1 box Cookie Crisp cereal
1 box Organic Chocolate cereal
2 bags mini marshmallows
2 bags milk chocolate chips
In a large bowl, simply combine cereals, and stir in marshmallows. Fill individual plastic bags. Sprinkle about 1 Tablespoon of chocolate chips per bag. When ready to enjoy, explain the power of solar energy as bags are placed for several minutes in the sun until chips are melted. This is a fun learning experience to demonstrate ways we can re-power with radiant energy. You may also make a Solar Oven by lining a recycled pizza box with aluminum foil to use solar heat to make traditional s’mores.
Planet Garden Encourages Upson Residents to Hire Locally
Here is Upson County, Georgia contact information to cancel overseas owned waste services, if you prefer to hire a local company or DIY.
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Violia, a company out of France, was hired by Upson County instead of locally owned waste service operators now serving Upson neighbors.
About Veolia The Board of Directors
Jean Azema (1)
Daniel Bouton (1)
Jean-François Dehecq (1)
Augustin de Romanet
de Beaune (1)
Jean-Marc Espalioux (1)
Paul-Louis Girardot (1)
Philippe Kourilsky
Serge Michel
Baudouin Prot (1)
Georges Ralli (1)
Paolo Scaroni (1)
Louis Schweitzer (1)
Murray Stuart (1)
Planet Garden Encourages Master Gardeners
You can take a course at the local Extension Service and become a Georgia Master Gardener. Click here for gardening events in middle Georgia.
Click here to become a Junior Master Gardener.
Click here to visit the website for Georgia Master Gardeners.
Upson County Coordinator
S. Wesley Smith
– Family and Consumer Sciences
– Agriculture & Natural Resources
– 4-H & Youth
Phone: 706-647-8989
Fax: 706-647-9346
E-mail: swsmith@uga.edu
Planet Garden Partners for Earthday Thomaston Victory Garden Party
You are invited to celebrate Earthday !
Earthday Thomaston Garden Party
Recycle Man will visit us. We will plant wildflower seeds donated by the Georgia Forestry Commission, sing songs, make Solar S’mores, celebrate eco-friendly living and more.
Thank you to Domino’s and Sav-a-lot for supporting this Earth Day event.
Planet Garden Encourages Keep Thomaston Upson Beautiful
Here are links to learn more about how we can participate to Keep America Beautiful with a Keep Thomaston Upson Beautiful beautification program. The certification process takes 4-6 months to complete. The four focus areas for change are Litter Prevention, Beautification, Community Improvement, and Waste Reduction
If you are interested in serving on the Pre-Certification Team, please Contact Patti Robinson at planetgarden@live.com
Planet Garden Earthday Thomaston Beautification Window Poster
Show your support for efforts to establish the Keep Thomaston Upson Beautiful program. Display this bright sunflower in your business or classroom window. Print as a poster or print on 2 x 4″ clear label sheets and give out sunflower stickers to your friends to encourage beautification and eco-friendly living. Be bright, go green.
- Earthday Thomaston Poster
For stickers, print the following on 2 x 4″ clear label sheets. (Found at Walmart)
Planet Garden Moves Inch by Inch Towards Sustainable Living
GARDEN SONG by Pete Seeger
CHORUS:
Inch by inch, row by row,
Gonna make this garden grow.
Gonna mulch it deep and low,
Gonna make it fertile ground.
Inch by inch, row by row,
Please bless these seeds I sow.
Please keep them safe below
‘Til the rain comes tumbling down.
Pullin’ weeds and pickin’ stones,
We are made of dreams and bones
Need a spot to call my own
Cause the time is close at hand.
Grain for grain, sun and rain
Find my way in nature’s chain
Tune my body and my brain
To the music of the land.
CHORUS
Plant your rows short or long,
Season them with a prayer and song
Mother earth will keep you strong
If you give her love and care.
Old crow watching from a tree
Has his hungry eyes on me
In my garden I’m as free
As that feathered thief up there.
CHORUS
Words and Music by David Mallett
©1975 Cherry Lane Music Publishing (ASCAP)
- “I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.”[42] Pete Seeger
- “But I think the thing to do is look ahead.”[45] Pete Seeger
- “I believe God is everywhere.”[47] Pete Seeger
Sustainable 1: capable of being sustained2 a: of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged <sustainable techniques> <sustainable agriculture> b: of or relating to a lifestyle involving the use of sustainable methods <sustainable society>
Planet Garden Values Creation Beautification for Earthday
The Creation by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) A spiritual sermon for Creation Care:
And God stepped out on space, And He looked around and said, “I’m lonely–I’ll make me a world.” And far as the eye of God could see Darkness covered everything,Blacker than a hundred midnights Down in a cypress swamp.Then God smiled,And the light broke,And the darkness rolled up on one side,And the light stood shining on the other,And God said, “That’s good!”Then God reached out and took the light in His hands, And God rolled the light around in His hands Until He made the sun; And He set that sun a-blazing in the heavens. And the light that was left from making the sun God gathered it up in a shining ball And flung it against the darkness, Spangling the night with the moon and stars.
Then down between The darkness and the light He hurled the world; And God said, “That’s good!” Then God himself stepped down—And the sun was on His right hand, And the moon was on His left; The stars were clustered about His head, And the earth was under His feet. And God walked, and where He trod His footsteps hollowed the valleys out And bulged the mountains up.Then He stopped and looked and saw That the earth was hot and barren.So God stepped over to the edge of the world, And He spat out the seven seas; He batted His eyes, and the lightnings flashed; He clapped His hands, and the thunders rolled;And the waters above the earth came down,The cooling waters came down.
Then the green grass sprouted,And the little red flowers blossomed,The pine tree pointed his finger to the sky, And the oak spread out his arms,The lakes cuddled down in the hollows of the ground,And the rivers ran down to the sea; And God smiled again,And the rainbow appeared,And curled itself around His shoulder.Then God raised His arm and He waved His hand Over the sea and over the land,And He said, “Bring forth! Bring forth!”And quicker than God could drop His hand.Fishes and fowls And beasts and birds Swam the rivers and the seas,Roamed the forests and the woods,And split the air with their wings.
And God said, “That’s good!”Then God walked around, And God looked around On all that He had made. He looked at His sun, And He looked at His moon,And He looked at His little stars;He looked on His world With all its living things,And God said, “I’m lonely still.” Then God sat down On the side of a hill where He could think; By a deep, wide river He sat down;With His head in His hands,God thought and thought,Till He thought, “I’ll make me a man!” Up from the bed of the river, God scooped the clay;And by the bank of the river He kneeled Him down; And there the great God Almighty Who lit the sun and fixed it in the sky,Who flung the stars to the most far corner of the night,Who rounded the earth in the middle of His hand;This Great God,Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image; Then into it He blew the breath of life,And man became a living soul.
Amen. Amen.
Planet Garden Encourages Single Stream Recycling for Middle Georgia
Click here to see pictures from the State of Georgia Grant Winning Recycle Hub Groundbreaking Ceremony in Griffin, Georgia.
“We want our planet to be a garden, not a landfill.”
Planet Garden Wonderful World Earthday Song List
We want our planet to be a garden, not a landfill. These songs inspire us for Earthday 2009 to celebrate our wonderful world.
1. This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie
2. The Garden Song (Inch by Inch) by Pete Seeger, written by David Mallett, Maine
3. Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles
4. Out in the Country by Three Dog Night
5. Bluebird of Happiness by Jan Pearce
6. Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell
7. The Three R’s (Reuse, Reduce, Recycle) by Jack Johnson
8. Garden Party by Ricky Nelson
9. Step in the Right Direction by The Montanas
10. What a Wonderful World by Sarah Brightman
I see them bloom, for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world.
I see skies of blue, and clouds of White
The bright blessed day, dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world.
The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces, of people going by
I see friends shaking hands, saying, “How do you do?”
They’re really saying, “I love you”
I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more, than I’ll ever know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world.
Planet Garden Anticipates Disney Nature Earth
Narrated by James Earl Jones this family and earth-friendly movie explores the amazing journeys of three animal families- polar bears, elephants and whales. It will open April 22, Earth Day 2009.
Planet Garden Resource Guide Links to Georgia Green and Healthy Schools
Georgia Green and Healthy Schools is Planet Garden’s favorite online source for green and healthy EE serving Georgia schools.
Click here to visit this terrific site for eco-friendly classroom resources.
Click here for Contests listing by Georgia Green and Healthy Schools
Click here for Grants listing by Georgia Green and Healthy Schools
Click here for Events listing by Georgia Green and Healthy Schools
Planet Garden Encourages Victory Gardens
Click here to visit Greensun Gardens, a blogsite about the community victory garden in Thomaston, Georgia and more.
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