2 School Gardening

The fourth and fifth graders of the Thalenser Waldorf School eagerly awaited their visit from Thuringia. They knew: Most of the guests will stay in the Harz afterwards. Hundreds of bees landed in the Bodestadt in two large boxes.gartenlehrer "We've been preparing for weeks," explains teacher Dörte Bauer, who is implementing the new project with the students. Rüdiger Maron, the experienced gardening teacher and enthusiastic beekeeper, began breeding animals five years ago at the Erfurt Waldorf School with girls and boys in the “Bee Club”. Now he supports the Harzers with two of their own strains in setting up a breed. It is also about preserving the animals "It's not just about treating these animals sensibly, but also about their preservation," he explains when setting up the beehives in the school garden. Diseases or pesticides in agriculture would pose great dangers. "The inner life of the trunk is checked at least once a week," the new bee mothers and fathers learn from Maron. Even before moving to the Harz mountains, they were checked carefully, especially to discover one of the animals' most dangerous enemies - the "American spoils." Marron: "Once it spreads, bee colonies are in danger." Student mother has dedicated herself to beekeeping Caroline Kienitz, a student mother who supports the project, also benefits from such experiences. In addition to her legal work, the Quedlinburg native has dedicated her free time to beekeeping. After the children got to know each other at school and exchanged ideas, they can hardly wait until the newcomers finally start out of the opening.