The Blue Lights project – Our Gardens, Your Oceans (…), Zabrze, Poland

22 of April

Earth Day: From Rain to Ocean – Connecting Our Garden to the Ocean 🌍💧🌊

Today we celebrated Earth Day with a focus on how every drop of water connects our local environment with the ocean. Students from class 3d are implementing the BlueLightS project “Our Gardens, Your Oceans – Connecting Local Biodiversity with Global Water Awareness”, funded by the Horizon Europe Programme. At this stage, we are working on adapting our school garden area, originally planned as a wildflower meadow (Ekosfera Dwójki). Based on last year’s observations, we know that this space suffers from very low water availability. That’s why we are installing rainwater tanks and a drip irrigation system – to retain water locally and use it efficiently. A week of soil moisture monitoring with sensors has confirmed how dry the area is. Students are now preparing the ground for irrigation and planting native perennials that will support biodiversity and better adapt to local conditions. Through this project, we learn that what happens in our garden does not stay in our garden – water flows further, shaping ecosystems, rivers, and ultimately the ocean.