Link to Thank you & Pictures from Landscaping Work Day on October 22, 2011

Here’s a chance to make a long-lasting and visible impact at Joe Dan Mills Elementary.  We need your help to ensure that the Mills campus environment is something our community can be proud of. 

We need volunteers for landscaping activities and beautification projects.  Activities include garden bed planting, weeding, tree trimming, and watering young trees as well as other landscaping tasks and projects.   We will be happy to work with your schedule and gladly accept a one-time or regular commitment for help. 

Some of our recent projects include:
• defining the natural path along the bike rack with limestone and playground mulch
• creating a several tree rings with loose rocks found on the grounds
• top dressing sod and wildflower garden with compost

Our projects benefit from community donations, most recent include:
• Bermuda sod and Dillo dirt from Emerald Garden
• Landscape beautification and improvement planning and documentation thanks to landscape architect and Mills parent Mike Fishbaugh
• Buffalo grass seed from Callahan's General Store
• live oaks from HEB

Many of our activities make excellent Service projects.   Our group worked with Eagle Scouts to build another outdoor classroom located by the gym.  They have installed stairs leading from the faculty parking lot to the old outdoor classroom.  Eagle Scouts have also helped build a Kindergarten classroom garden.   Our ongoing beautification plans offer more community project opportunities.

Some future projects and ideas (wish list) include:
• terracing the eroded hill beside the new bike rack
• creating a weather station
• installing rain barrels by the portable and kindergarten beds
• planting trees
• filling in eroded areas with dirt and mulch

If you are interested to learn more about landscaping volunteer opportunities or have any campus landscaping questions, concerns or requests, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .