Earth Day
Every year in late April, Evergreen hosts an Earth Day event which engages students in a wide array of service and learning opportunities. This day is accompanied by a Plant Sale whose profits benefit our Environmental Education program.
Earth Day is carefully curated by our resident Environmental Education teacher to be a meaningful and exciting event for our students that centers positive, actionable solutions, service, and exciting, creative endeavors.
Over the years, Evergreen has installed several bioswales to aid in directing stormwater and managing the runoff of flood water and pollutants from our campus to neighboring Haw Creek (and everything downstream). Part of Earth Day each year is making sure that we remain good water stewards by ensuring these rain gardens are healthy and effective.
Students will also learn the importance of caring for our immediate environment by engaging in developmentally appropriate campus maintenance projects that care for and enrich our school environment, like:
Garden work
Trail maintenance
Mulching
In Spring of 2025 Joéle launched, quite literally, another exciting project this year, with the help of our Technology Teacher, Kevin. Utilizing a drone, we mapped our campus’ tree canopy. Over the next few years students will be researching our campus’ canopy to study ‘Crown Shyness’, an interesting phenomena that students will be poised to observe, map, and theorize upon in EE classes in the coming years. You can learn more about Crown Shyness here.
Pictures from our 2025 Earth Day celebration
Help Us Maintain and Grow Our Environmental Education Program with your gift to the Evergreen Annual Fund!
The Evergreen Fund relies on the support of a community who values an evidence based scientific approach to environmental issues. Teaching children to think scientifically will benefit them across educational disciplines now and in the future. Fostering scientific literacy is a fundamental value of our Environmental Education program. We feel that one of the best ways to make an impact on the future of our planet is by having a firm grasp of the scientific method.
A majority of the Evergreen Annual Fund, about 80% of its proceeds are used to ensure that we can pay for our most valuable assets as a school: our teachers. Attracting and retaining quality teachers and support staff are a priority for our school, and is what makes us a quality institution offering a rigorous academic program.
Please consider a gift of any amount/frequency to help keep this dream alive in Western North Carolina.