![]() ![]() Richard Hull and our department chairs for supporting our dream, and our sincere gratitude to each and every donor who made this award possible! ![]() Members of the team Kelly Knight, Rhonda Trace-Burrough, Andi Shirley Oldner, Elizabeth Renée and Megan Anne Keith, have worked tirelessly to make this dream into what quickly is becoming a reality. Scientific research shows that students learn more from being outdoors and it is our hope that through this method, we can also bridge the gap between acceptance, awareness, and understanding within our Tiger Family. This project will promote sustainability and support our community donations to local food banks. Adjacent to our new Tiger Prairie site, we will be using these funds to implement a sensory garden and build wheelchair accessible garden beds in an effort to welcome one and all to the space. Thank you to the Katy ISD Education Foundation for awarding Katy High School $5000.00 for our "Gardening for Inclusivity" grant!! We have a vision to bolster inclusion of all populations in our school community by creating an accessible, sensory friendly place for our students to explore, learn, and grow. It is the foundation to every ecosystem.Ġ4/22/22 Inclusivity is a cornerstone value at Katy High School. Without these beneficial microbes, our prairie would not grow! Soil is everything. Mycoorrhizae assist with water and nutrient uptake, while Trichoderma are fungi that enhance root and plant growth, and aid in plant disease resistance. The last picture shows what healthy soil needs to have a full microbiome. Radishes and turnips use their large tap-roots to "burrow down", increasing the soil porosity. These are the wart-looking structures in the roots of these plants, harboring living bacteria that takes nitrogen from the air and begins the process of turning it into plant food nature's fertilizer! You'll find these legumes planted throughout the remediated site to help make our soil more nutritious for our prairie plants. In the picture below, you can see legume plant nodules. Just a little bit of rain goes a long way on the Tiger Prairie! After a long drought, our cover crops have fully recovered and are hard-at-work improving the soil.
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