{"id":3399,"date":"2024-06-03T17:19:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T21:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2024-06-03T17:24:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T21:24:20","slug":"lincoln-school-green-team-and-the-win-fast-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/lincoln-school-green-team-and-the-win-fast-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln School Green Team and The WIN Fast Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elementary school \u201cGreen Teams\u201d give students the opportunity to put their passion for the environment into action. Teams are typically offered by parent volunteers with support from school staff. And teams have taken on projects such as school cafeteria recycling, composting and waste reduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Lincoln Green Team<\/strong><br>The Lincoln Elementary School Green Team has been in existence since 2016 through the dedicated support of parent volunteers. The current Green Team is made up of 16 students, grades 3 &#8211; 5, led by parents Rachel Chidsey and Lauren Gilbert. The group meets once a month to participate\u00a0in various activities such as maintaining the school flower garden, building a home composter, and organizing \u201cwalk to school\u201d days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Green Team and the WIN Fast Forest<\/strong><br>At its November meeting, Prassede Calabi of Grow Local for the Planet led a discussion about forests and all the things they do. The group also considered forests as the obvious base of the ecological food pyramid, (while the soil microbiome is the true base of the food pyramid, we can\u2019t see it just by looking).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The food pyramid includes these parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Forest plants feed and support insects, especially caterpillars.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Caterpillars are essential for baby birds (and insects including moths &amp; butterflies are essential for all flowering plants).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It takes about a thousand caterpillars to feed a baby bird.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So without forest plants, we\u2019d lose all those parts of the food pyramid<br>The group also talked about planting the WIN Fast Forest in April \u2013 now postponed to September 21. And everyone drew pictures of trees. <br><br>Here are those pictures! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"631\" data-id=\"3400\" src=\"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-lincoln-green-tree_10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-lincoln-green-tree_10.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-lincoln-green-tree_10-228x300.jpeg 228w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 960px) 75vw, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"621\" data-id=\"3401\" 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height=\"480\" data-id=\"3408\" src=\"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-lincoln-green-tree_2-e1717449326330.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-lincoln-green-tree_2-e1717449326330.jpeg 618w, https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-lincoln-green-tree_2-e1717449326330-300x233.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 960px) 75vw, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"480\" data-id=\"3409\" src=\"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-lincoln-green-tree_1-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-lincoln-green-tree_1-2.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-lincoln-green-tree_1-2-300x232.jpeg 300w\" 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Teams are typically offered by parent volunteers with support from school staff. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/lincoln-school-green-team-and-the-win-fast-forest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lincoln School Green Team and The WIN Fast Forest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-3399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-win-fastforest","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wfmchub.org\/growlocal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}