Kansas Green Schools Water Quality Grant

On April 6, 2009, Prairie Moon Waldorf School learned that it had been awarded a Kansas Green Schools Water Quality Grant for the Okanis Garden. This grant is administered through Kansas Association of Conservation & Environmental Education (KACEE) and funded through the Kansas Dept. of Health & Environment.

The grant will assist Prairie Moon with curriculum-development in non-point source pollution reduction and prevention and water conservation, as they relate to the Okanis Garden. The curricula will begin to be taught during the 2009 Prairie Moon Summer Camp.

The grant also provides monies to build a rain barrel system for the garden, which will be constructed during summer, 2009.

As matches to the grant, Prairie Moon has already received donations of two large, round, bales of straw for heavy mulching in the garden, and native plants for xeriscaping on the school grounds.

Prairie Moon Waldorf School can officially proclaim itself to be a "Kansas Green School"!