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Learning through nature

By Annie Blaylock McQueen, Staff writer | June 1, 2015

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Archie Martin and Luke Chipman

A group of Frostwood Elementary School students planted a piece of history on the Frostwood Tiger Prairie, the school’s on-campus pocket prairie, which was developed with the Katy Prairie Conservancy (KPC). Last year, bee balm (a native mint) and Virginia wildrye seeds from the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site were collected and conserved by KPC’s conservation education director Jaime Gonzalez. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department approved the plants being replanted at a Prairie Builder School. Frostwood joined this program last year. Students, including (pictured) fifth grader Archie Martin and third grader Luke Chipman, helped plant some of the bee balm. Their moms, Kristin Martin and Lisa Lauter, along with Andrea Eubanks, helped develop the pocket prairie.

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