This morning we
had three students from Udavi school come and join the volunteers. All three come from the most recent group we
have been teaching at the school in the last few months.
We watered the
fruit trees in New Horizon where all the trees have been mulched with coconut
fibre mat recycled from some mattresses.
One of the students pointed out to me that the matt probably had some
glue on it and questioned whether it might be leaching chemicals into the soil.
I was SO pleased
to see that he was thinking about what he was doing and had obviously listened
to what I had been saying when I was teaching at his school. I explained that because of the glue I wouldn’t
use the mat for vegetables but that for trees it was OK. They grow much slower
and can actually help to break down any chemicals.
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