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US (FL): Students help reestablish rare and endangered native orchids

Forty five students from Jose Marti MAST 6-12 Academy in Hialeah participated in the first group of school orchid outplantings at their school on May 15 as part of Fairchild Garden’s Million Orchid Project.

The Million Orchid Project, with a goal to reestablish rare and endangered native orchids throughout public spaces in South Florida, has been incorporated into the Fairchild Challenge, the successful multidisciplinary education program for 125,000 public and private K-12 students in 270 schools in Miami.

Jason Dowling of Fairchild Garden taught freshmen and juniors how to attach newly grown Florida cowhorn orchids to oak and buttonwood trees at the school using burlap twine, a natural fiber.

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