6月24日， 立足技术 一整天都在做志愿者 Eubie Blake学校 在布鲁克林.  The enthusiastic team revived 的 school’s garden area by clearing weeds, 搭建架空床, and constructing benches for an outdoor classroom. bg视讯采访了创始人兼首席营销官 尼克Scharlatt 关于他的经历.

你最初是如何加入bg视讯的?

I first heard about bg视讯 in 2007, and by 2008 I had joined 的 Board!  我在城市里长大, just a few blocks from a 回收 plant and a Greenmarket, so 的 idea of being involved and supporting bg视讯’s work appealed to me. 

Why did you choose a school garden as a volunteer opportunity for your team?

成长为学习 是我最喜欢的bg视讯项目之一.  It offers what I call a “big win from a small age” – a chance to have a significant and long-lasting effect on 孩子们, 从小就开始.  A work day in a school garden is also an opportunity to get a lot done!  If you start out with a rough plan, big overhaul becomes possible with a team of volunteers.  bg视讯可以完成这项工作!  


How did your team react to 的 idea of a work day in a school garden? 

当我向我的团队宣布这个消息时, people were really excited – except for one volunteer who had nightmarish flashbacks to weeding as a kid in his family’s garden!  成长为学习 made working at a school garden totally “turn key”:  的 problem was t在这里, 设备就在那里, bg视讯就是解决方案.  

What were some of your favorite moments from 的 work day?

有很多跨团队合作, so people who don’t necessarily ever work toge的r were getting deep into 的 roots toge的r – literally!  People who didn’t really know each o的r wound up working toge的r for hours, 我在拔根, 或者一起搭床.  

What do you think were 的 benefits of 的 work day for your team? 这所学校?

整个团队都很支持这个项目.  As we were seeing how much we got done, we felt 的 satisfaction of 的 job well done.  和, talking to 的 staff and community members at 的 school, 很明显, 不管学校有多少人参与, it sometimes feels like t在这里’s never enough resources.  The Janitor said 的 job would have taken him six months alone, so it felt important to support school gardens by bringing resources, 以及如此多的人力, 解决一些问题，并在那里产生重大影响.

Why would you encourage o的rs to donate to 成长为学习? 

Every kid should experience 的 kind of space we were able to help build.  It shouldn’t be that only some students get to experience 的 variety of life experiences, 课程, 还有学校花园提供的户外活动.  成长为学习 gives 孩子们 who don’t have many opportunities to leave 的 city or get a taste of 的 outdoors a way to learn through nature.  突然之间, 当着大家的面, t在这里’s this amazing school resource that we could help make usable.  T在这里’s a satisfaction for everyone who supports school gardens in knowing that with a few hours or few dollars you can change 的 way a whole school relates to 的 outdoors.