Helping Hands Committee

  • Students raking twigs on a lawn

Helping Hands – 2019 Earth Day at Socrates Park, April 18th

April 18, 2019

Helping Hands (Grades 7 through 12) celebrated Earth Day raking, refertilizing, and seeding at Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria. (Photo credit: Peter Wilson)

  • Student in gray holding a rake
  • A group of students raking the lawn
  • Three students carefully rake twigs off a dirt ground
  • Back of a student in blue raking
  • Student in gray sprinkles seeds on the lawn
  • Students standing and working at Socrates Sculpture Park
  • Students are bent, seeding the lawn
  • Student in green rakes while others chat amongst themselves
  • A group of students walking together at Socrates Sculpture Park
  • Student in black rake while another seeds the grass
  • Student holds a trash bag while another puts twigs in it
  • Three students holding rakes work on clearing the lawn
  • Students walk through a brush in single file
  • Girl in a gray coat rakes while a student in black sprinkles seeds on the ground
  • Students in front of the Socrates Sculpture Park sign
  • Student dances while another refills her cup with seeds
  • A student in black rakes the grass alone
  • Student wearing work gloves rakes the lawn
  • A group of students focused on raking the dirt ground
  • Students smile as they work on seeding the ground
  • Students pull materials out of a wheelbarrow
  • Students walk by with gardening materials
  • Students throwing things into a body of water
  • Students chat with each other while standing beside a glistening body of water
  • Student holds safety beam
  • Students socialize and gather gardening material from a wheelbarrow beside a body of water
  • Students carry a log together
  • Students look out onto a body of water
  • Students lean down to grab things off the lawn as they rake
  • Students gathered along a body of water just off the lawn
  • Students reach into a wheelbarrow filled with organic material
  • Students rake in the distance
  • Students raking and examining the ground with work gloves
  • Two students stand with their rakes
  • Students tend to plants in their garden bed
  • Student hands off plants to someone placing plants in the vegetable/herb garden
  • Four students rake together
  • Students rake on a backdrop of a barren tree line
  • Students sitting on the ledge of their garden bed
  • A group of students raking chat and laugh together
  • Students bend over to adjust plants in their garden bed
  • Students chat outdoors as they take a break
  • A group of students stand beside their garden bed, some planting
  • Students gathered, raking an area of the lawn together
  • Students manage their new plants in the garden
  • Students with their new garden
  • Students lean into the raised garden bed to tend to their plants
  • Students stand proudly with their vegetable/herb garden
  • A group of four students seed the lawn
  • Some students rake while others take a break
  • Students work together to rake an area of the lawn
  • Students grab handfuls of dirt from a tree planted on the sidewalk
  • Students put handfuls of dirt into a garbage bin on the sidwalk
  • A student kneeling by her freshly placed plant on the sidewalk
  • A student opens a garbage bag while others wait around her with their seed cups
  • A student kneeling, covering the roots of a plant with dirt
  • Hunched back of students raking the lawn
  • Student shovels dirt while two other students wearing gloves work beside them
  • Students rake in a clearing with a building in the backdrop
  • Two students shovel dirt from a tree planted on the sidewalk
  • A group of students hard at work raking
  • Students seeding chat with each other
  • Student holds an unpotted plant in his hands on the sidewalk
  • Students dusting off their gloves over the dirt
  • Students dig holes in the dirt with gloved hands
  • Students examine their planting and garden bed
  • Student steps into garden bed to find a spot for his plant
  • Students plant plants in a raised garden bed
  • Students gather around a raised garden bed
  • A student pulls out measuring tape on the lawn while other students watch
  • Students oversee and manage a collection of plants
  • Students nestle plants into dirt
  • An adult speaks to the students outdoors
  • Students work around a large collection of plants
  • A group of students laughs and listens to someone off-camera
  • Students choose plants from a large collection
  • Eight students outdoors listen intently
  • Students hold up plants in their hands
  • A group of eleven students rake the grass