DeGolyer Discovery Garden: Saturday's Family Build Day

What a great way to spend a Saturday and meet some more amazing parents! Yesterday was our First Family build Day at DeGolyer and everyone from the principal and teachers to the girl scouts, boy scouts and even a Lowe's Associate showed up to help. And we cannot forget all of our wonderful parents who lent a hand anywhere something needed doing. There were wheelbarrows to load, granite to rake, cinder blocks to lay, tilling, weed block fabric and just the cleaning alone- not to mention feeding hungry workers, watching kids and just all around being amazing.

We started out the morning trying to simply dig holes for the trees (Ramona the River birch, Charles the Chinese Pistachio & Filbert the Forest Pansy Red Bud) Well, the dirt proved even too much for the rented commercial auger that was brought. Thankfully there were some very kind and generous construction workers near by who just happened to have a back how and a soft place in their heart for elementary school volunteers. The trees were planted, watered and staked in their new homes where they will watch over our kids for years to come.

The cleaning of the garden and the picking up of the debris from the concrete pour rounded out our morning. We moved on to laying landscape fabric to help with weed control and filling those areas with decomposed granite and rubber mulch from a parade of wheelbarrows. The vegetable garden was cleared and ready for a new beginning. Our hardy girl scouts and dads braved the clay and planted some of our grasses before all was said and done we were starting to look like a real garden.

It seemed like every time I turned around there was someone else asking what they could do to help. We finished more yesterday than I thought we would get done in the whole weekend.

Just in case you were wondering about all that debris, the guys returned from dumping and it ended up being 2.7 TONS!!!! That’s a lot of moving!