Students plant pocket forest at East Bay school to help fight climate change

Students plant pocket forest at East Bay school to help fight climate change

By Molly McCrea Schilling Elementary School in Newark is packed with young pioneers, willing to get their hands dirty. Schilling is the first school in its district to plant a pocket forest on its campus. Armed with shovels, mountains of mulch, and gardening tools, students from all grades are turning their campus into a climate change-fighting superpower. On a 12,000-square-foot patch, they’re planting drought-tolerant flowers, shrubs, and sapl…