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The IHS Green Steps program is quite varied and covers many student activities. Please take a look!
Veggie garden early summer 2019
Students planted vegetables in the raised garden area in spring of 2019.
Planting lantana in front of the school spring 2019
Transplanting herbs students grew from seed spring 2019
Students planted an aloe plant for Ms. Faye and the cafeteria for Valentine's Day!
Re-growing celery February 2020
Beans in the garden 2019
Greenhouse winterizing
Students' Clemson flowers in the garden
Winter care for the plants
Harvesting butternut squash fall 2019
Painting flower pots
Exploring fruits of the world
Hanging basket created by students from plantings they propagated
This is the start of the pot to the above right.
Students' stadium pot planted in the fall of 2019. Students plant and care for two large pots of flowers at the visitors' canteen. This canteen area has been used by the SCHSL when Irmo hosted the state soccer finals in all brackets for boys and girls for the past several years.
Students plant seasonal flower pots at the stadium in the spring and the fall. They learn to care for them by applying proper fertilization and watering when needed.
Sown seeds became plants for the plant sale! (May 2019)
Students planted marigolds in mod podge pots for all the teachers spring 2019
A poinsettia blossom from a propagated plant rooted in sand and peat moss with rooting powder at the base
Cherry tomatoes grown in Irmo's garden in early summer 2019
Propagated poinsettias
Greenhouse winter care in January 2019 when some poinsettias had just been replanted
Spring of 2019 IB students clean and prepare the area before planting the pollinators!
IB raised garden pollinators pictured in June of 2019
IB pollinators in June 2019. The students learn how to care for this garden and teach other students to be able to maintain it after they have graduated.
DNR's Sarah Chabaane helps IHS students celebrate the successful trout release in spring 2019.
Lexington County's John Oxner teaches IHS students about the value of trees (provide air filtration and oxygen production, soil erosion stability, wildlife habitat, construction material, recreation and enjoyment!).
Photo in spring 2019
Civinettes planting violas in late fall 2019
Civinettes' violas filled in well!
Celebrating successful planting!
Morning Glories students planted from seeds in their garden in the spring of 2019. This photo is in the fall 2019.
Close view of one of the Morning Glories which seemed to be the students favorite flower!
Moon flowers were also planted in the garden. These bloom in late evening/night.
Our school was given a large box of a variety of seeds from Seven Oaks Plant Shop to share with other Green Steps Schools!
Students LOVED looking at the seeds, talking about them, and sorting by category for distribution to the other schools.
The seeds were sorted as flowers, vegetables, and herbs and given to all the schools in our district working in the Green Steps program who wanted them.
These strawberry plants (photo on 4-17-2020) were planted by students in spring 2019.
This is our spreading thyme in the garden. We are experimenting to see if roots will grow by placing a brick on certain runners. If so, we can remove that portion for replanting. We are rooting these in water as well.
These are amaryllis bulbs blooming that the students planted in the fall. In the background is rosemary they planted at the same time.
Photo on 4-17-2020
This encore azalea and 3 others were transplanted to an area along the sidewalk near our garden by a student interested in gardening. He comes to the Greenhouse area regularly during study hall and lunch to do gardening and work with seeds and plants.
This fern was donated to us because it was doing poorly. Our students transplanted it to a slightly larger pot and have been misting it frequently and watering as needed. The new growth is remarkable!
Pictured are 50 Kalanchoe plants in 4" pots generously donated to our Green Steps program by Seven Oaks Plant Shop. These are being cared for, the stems clipped and rooted to propagate more plants, and all to be repotted for teachers at a future time for the Plants in every Classroom project.
IB pollinators on 4-17-2020. The white ones are arugula going to seed.
IB pollinator garden on 4-17-2020.
Another raised garden bed of IB pollinators pictured on 4-17-2020.
Sting Deli sweets!
Meal prep in the Sting Deli.
Sting Deli Salad choices
Fresh Garden Salad
Salad with grilled chicken, croutons and cheese
Sting Deli Baked Potato Lunch
Sting Deli Wrap
Packaging the cookies
Packing Christmas treats in decorative tins that are sold to teachers/staff/community
Packaging two cookies at a time
Cutting kale grown in our garden
Students learn how to properly cut up fresh Bell Pepper for salads.
Carrots
Cucumbers
Tomatoes
Topping choices for salads
Students learn to make homemade chicken salad with fresh chopped apples
Irmo's Sting Deli is a "special kitchen" place where students learn math and reasoning skills while preparing wonderful food! The students serve lunches to teachers and staff every other Friday. Students take the orders, prepare the food, and deliver it. The menu is great and very reasonably priced! They also cater food for events at the school, the district office and the community.
Irmo's Sting Deli was invited and scheduled to donate colorful and festive finger foods for the City of Columbia's Earth Day Celebration on April 25, 2020 at the Columbia Museum of Art. This event had to be cancelled.
Students planted a dozen blueberry bushes in January 2019. Two students from The Center came with their tiller to till the ground for planting. Students had previously killed the weeds in this area with a non toxic treatment of 1 gallon white vinegar, 2 cups Epson salt and 1/4 cup Dawn dishwashing liquid. Dawn was used because it is stickier than most detergents helping to cling to the foliage. Care was taken not to soak the soil but to target the weeds.
This photo was on 4-17-20 and all bushes are loaded with blueberries. Plans are to harvest them for freezing and to be used at a later time in the STING DELI.
The STING DELI won the South Carolina DCDT Business of the Year Award in November 2019. Our Sting Deli students traveled to Greenville, SC with samples of their tasty food. Students made presentations about what they do and answered questions from the SC DCDT.
The SC Division on Career Development and Transition helps increase the participation of education in career development and transition goals. They help improve the quality of and access to such opportunities and offer support in many ways. They influence policies affecting career development for persons with disabilities.
Click on the picture to the left to see the WLTX teacher of the week video of Joyce Moran with her students.
This is a small portion of the "GETAWAY" inside garden near a faculty lounge. Our students plant pots and hanging baskets of seasonal colorful flowers to brighten and lift the spirits of anyone inside the garden and those passing through the halls!
This is the shadiest of the 3 inside gardens and has brick benches throughout. Students sometimes use this space as a classroom. This garden has a bird family living in it!
This third garden is near the media center and has a large dogwood tree near the center. Each of these three gardens can only be accessed by interior doors. There are glass windows around them so the gardens can also be seen by just walking by.
This array of flowers is student designed and cared for.
Here is another view of the media center garden.
Our media center garden has two sets of bistro tables and chairs for relaxing while taking a break or having lunch outside on a pretty day!
These students had just planted a pot of flowers featuring a "tractor seat" plant! This made us so HAPPY!
Irmo HS has had a community farmer's market on Tuesdays from 5-8 PM starting early summer through the end of October. Click on the WLTX Street Squad news article at the left to see all about it!
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