The Chicago Cares Organization

On monday, June 18th, 2012 there were different organizations that came out to help us with our vegetable garden. There were organizations like Chase, Toyota, and other companies. When i first arrived there, there were many people i saw that were from the chicago cares organization. I was surprised to see that many people. There were alot of tools there that i never saw before and i was so amazed. I met new people and showed them a tour around the garden. I named all the vegetables we grew, and i also showed them how we planted it. They were so kind to leave us vegetables to grow in our garden.




They provided us snacks and water. We grew more vegetables and put mulch around the plants to help it stay healthy, and watered it. Some of the people in the chicago cares organization built picnic tables and tables so that we can keep our food on it, so that it wont have to stay on the ground. We built a sign for the garden. We used wheel burrows to collect all the mulch and soil for the plants. We planted 6 fruit trees.
 I had a chance to take one person from the organization, Courtney, on a tour in our school and i showed her all the classes in the building and she was amazed. I had a chance to talk to alot of the people from the organization about myself and i answered alot of questions, but the good part about is that the questions were interesting.  After we planted and watered everything we started hoeing, to make sure that there were no dead plants or big rocks that would prevent our vegetables from growing. It seemed like a big success.


 After all the hardwork we cleaned up the garden and we enjoyed lunch, we had subway. My very own principal Mr. Hordon came and talked to us about our school and how it was a turnaround school. He recognized the garden as a success and thanked the members and also the sponsor of the garden. It was very fun and we should do this again because i really learned something out of this and i appreciate coming out every week to keep our garden looking good.