Travis High School Digs in Deep to Go Green

Community Volunteers Work Alongside Students to Revitalize Courtyard

ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Texas—This weekend, students at Travis High School in the ÁùºÏ±¦µä are rolling up their sleeves for an environmentally friendly, community project-digging into unused courtyard space to add new life to their South ÁùºÏ±¦µä campus.

Who: Travis students, community volunteers and permaculture experts

What: The school community is working together to green the campus, helping students build a water catchment system, garden planters and edible landscape.

When: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26 

Where: Travis High School, courtyard, 1211 E Oltorf St.

Background: Travis High School has invited volunteers to dig, rake, haul supplies and build composting bins and to bring additional tools such as steel rakes, wheel barrows, shovels or pickaxes.