Plant Sale FASTLY approaching! This Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday!

Here are some of the students' hard work advertising for the plant sale. They put in a lot of effort and it shows!

Here is a list of plants we usually have at the sale. They usually range from $3 for 4 inch pots to $7 for 1 gallon pots. Some more specialty plants can go between $10-$25. We may even have some trees. If there is anything you would us to try and procure, let us know!

Texas Red Bud
Mexican Plum
Fragrant Mimosa (in bloom)
Possumhaw
Yaupon Holly
Wax Myrtle
Anacacho Orchid (in bloom)
Crossvine (in bloom)
Montezuma Cypress
Monterey Oak
Red Yucca (in bloom)
Twist Leaf Yucca
Gulf Muhly
Lindheimer Muhly
Inland Sea Oats
Blue Eyed Grass (in bloom)
White Coneflower
Purple Coneflower (in bloom)
Cedar Sage
Salvia Cleavelandii
Red Columbine
Texas Betony
Chocolate Daisy
Texas Rock Rose (in bloom)
Apache Plume (in bloom)
Chili Pequin
Escarpment Cherry

TX Mountain Laurel

Spiderwort

Cedar Elm

Aloe Vera

Pinyon Pine

Shrubby Bush Sage

White Mistflower

Gregg's Mistflower

Catalpa

Evergreen Sumac

American Beautyberry

Lantana Horrida

Sabal Minor

Eve's Necklace

Mexican Plum

Monterey Oak

Lacey Oak

Desert Willow

Goldenball Leadtree

Aloe Vera

Century Plant

Possumhaw

Red Yucca

Sotol

Nolina Texana

Heartleaf Skullcap

Obedient plant

Skeletonleaf goldeneye

Prostrate Rosemary

Mexican Oregano

Salvia greggi

Remember, we are still selling potted homecoming mums. Buy in bulk, it saves $$$!!! Show your COUGAR SPIRIT!

Check out our Facebook page for order forms and other information about the Green Tech Academy.

https://www.facebook.com/Small-Green-Tech-Academy-430549237070310/timeline/

UPDATE! PLANT SALE COMING SOON! 9/24, 9/25, 9/28 and 9/29!

More information to come. Native and adapted plants will be sold! We will also sell potted mums in honor of football homecoming.

Thanks to all who came out to the third annual Green Fest Austin, featuring live music from Guy Forsyth & the Hot Nut Riveters, great healthy--I mean, yummy--food, vendors and fun activities like the climbing wall and the hamster balls.

Introduction of Guy by our former student Nicole, who worked to get the grant so that the band could play Green Fest.

Getting started.

2013 1st 6 Weeks Recap –by Kasi M. and Julia M.

 (Some images have been borrowed from other sites due to technical dificulties)

This year has started off great! The students have already worked on many projects to benefit our school.

A salad bar has been added to our cafeteria. Adding more healthy options in the cafeteria is always a goal of our program. Soon the food in the salad bar will hopefully all be grown in our vegetable gardens. We have expanded our beds to begin this process. Prior to Green Fest we constructed more keyhole gardens. Keyhole gardens allow one person to work a garden more efficiently by allowing them to reach the whole garden without moving. They also have compost added right into the soil, through the middle mesh tube.

Our students raise chickens each year. In previous years we have raised the chicks from only a few days old to egg laying years all in class. This year we purchased chicks from Callahan’s. Ms. Dunaway has taken care of the chicks up to this point at her home. They have recently been brought back to school to get taken care of by students and live in our chicken coup.

We have installed a new rainwater garden. This garden helps catch rain to make sure it is absorbed by the plants instead of the water becoming runoff. Runoff leads to erosion and the loss of valuable topsoil. It has held up to our "mosoonal" downpours.

The north pond that was started last year was finished this year. It has native plants like pink Turk’s cap and has a waterfall. It is also home to  mosquito fish, red eared sliders, and a plethora of insects.

The gardens that were built three years ago using a National Wildlife Foundation grant always need maintenance. This year our benches were beginning to look like they needed some help. We replaced some boards. and we have them a new coat of  green ­­ and purple paint. Go Cougars and Green Tech!

Green Fest was a great success! This festival raised money for upcoming projects by selling native plants, t-shirts, entry fees for all of our awesome activites, and from donations from vendors.  We are going to sell the remaining plants throughout this week ending this Friday, 10/18, at our school.

We are also still selling mulch and Green Fest shirts. Mulch is $4 a yard. Shirts are $10. You can also contact Mr. Rosenberg, nate.rosenberg@austinisd.org, if you would like to come out any purchase any items throughout the week.

Some of the plants we still have are:

·         Esperanza (yellow Bells)

·         Mexican Feather grass (wire grass)

·         Bulbine

·         Red Shrimp Plant

·         Mexican Plum

·         Conoclinium Gregg (small, grey)

·         Black Foot Daisy

·         Palm Lady Tree

·         4 Nerve Daisy

·         Mexican Bush sage (purple)

·         Desert Willow

·         Star Tree Ivy

·         Fall Aster

·         American Beauty Berry

·         Mexican Beauty Berry

·         Mountain Laurel

·         Oxford Pink Salvia

·         Salvia greggi

·         Turks Cap

·         Texas Rock Rose

Fall Plant Sale Info