Millbrook School Celebrates Earth Day
Millbrook’s annual Earth Day celebration included a variety of different activities to support our steadfast mission of environmental stewardship.
While every day at Millbrook students, faculty, and staff recycle and practice environmentally friendly habits, our Earth Day celebration is special in that the whole community comes together at one time to embrace our core value of environmental stewardship of the natural world.
In preparation for Earth Day, students and faculty gathered after classes on Pulling Quad on April 21. After splitting into groups, everyone headed out on assigned routes to pick up trash across our campus and along local roads. Groups also worked in our community garden, processed recyclables, and engaged in stream cleanup to help maintain our wetland buffer zone.
Students in our Farm Squad athletic alternative program also constructed raised garden beds to donate to local schools, organizations, and restaurants. Dean of Faculty Kathy Havard, Academic Dean Jarratt Clarke, and history teacher Lindsay Peterson accompanied the girls softball team to Hillcrest House, where alumna Elizabeth Celaya ’98, director of organizational development at Hudson River Housing, met them and helped set up the bed. The hope is that this bed and the other 4 that were set up will have a lasting impact, allowing residents and students to grow food and understand how sustainable food sources are beneficial in so many ways.
Visit our online photo gallery to view photos from our Earth Day celebration.
