Brittany Krasutsky special to The Black Mountain News

Charles D. Owen Middle School students and staff have been developing the plants and paths on their 40-acre campus but were challenged to find the time and people to maintain them.

Their solution was to partner with students at Owen High School for a day of helping with the middle school’s Natural Impact Initiative. The ongoing initiative has inspired the middle schoolers to create different types of gardens and add chestnut trees and milkweed plots. All that work has resulted in plants that need to be watered, transplanted, or trimmed. Annual plants needed to be replaced, weeds needed to be picked and mulch needed to be added.

5/19/2016