 To learn about the Binford Rain Garden, click here.
All of our gardens are maintained by our building
and grounds committee. To get involved, contact
Erica Cotton Blackwell at 780-0666 or 441-3992
Be sure to stop by and see the progress on our gardens . . .
Volunteers working in Gardens on Wednesday, Aug. 26, gathered 7 pounds of tomatoes and basil from the pizza garden! The produce was donated to the Central Virginia Foodbank.
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More beautiful benches were recently added next to the rain garden! Thank you Visual Arts Center of Richmond!
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 Ms. Hackett's Science class has added plants to our Pizza Garden and other classes released butterflies into our butterfly garden in the spring of 2009
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At the Binford Bash, on April 25, we added Mosaic signs created by our Latin students and the first of several benches created by our students taking stained glass at the Visual Arts Center (with the help and guidance of instructor Mary McNeil) to the Rain Garden.
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 The Binford PTA Rain Garden Project was awarded the Aqua Achievement award on Dec. 4, 2008.
This award was the result of a Maggie Walker Governor's School student volunteer experience at our Rally for the Rain Garden. Siobhan Rigby was so impressed with our efforts that she nominated us to the Lego Robotics Team with which she worked.
They were engaged in a "Climate Connections" project. Their team was looking to recognize groups that were working in the community to help the environment. We thank the "Demon Squirrels" Lego Robotics team for recognizing our hard work!
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 The Rain Garden is being created by the Building and Grounds Committee of the Binford PTA, through the generous support of the Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants Program, The Virginia Environmental Endowment, the Fan Townhouse and Garden Club, the Fan District Association, and the Fan Women's Club.
Volunteers are needed for this committee.
To join in the work of making Binford bloom, contact Linda Gabbert at lindagabbert@comcast.net or 231-7688.
 To see a slide show of photos from the October 18, Rally for the Rain Garden , click here. Thanks go to Sala Powell of Soft Impressions Photography for many of the photos in the slide show.
The Binford PTA expresses its deepest appreciation to the many students, parents, teachers, neighbors, business partners, and community members who helped us as we added our first fall plantings to our rain garden. Over 80 volunteers came out to help Binford bloom on October 18! Many others came on November 1, to continue the work.
In addition to the many volunteers who staffed our tables and worked in the garden, we thank everyone who rented yard sale space and those who shopped at the sales for their financial support of Binford at our Rally for the Rain Garden!
We also thank the following organizations and businesses whose donations for the Rally for the Rain Garden helped to make the day such a great success:
To learn more about our rain garden, click here
Thank You for helping Binford Bloom!
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