Global Connections students joined forces with Guy Manza of the facilities department to plan, shop for, and plant two gardens on their campus. Funding came from grants awarded to students from the Sustainable Seattle Organization. The Day of Darkness team used some of their grant money to purchase solar lights and added those to the garden areas.

The gardens will be supplied with water from another project - a rain barrel collection unit. Teacher Alana Vinther observes, "This will not only introduce the concept of a rain barrel to all the students, staff, and community who see it, and water the new garden - we also speculate it is going to minimize a drain issue we have had in that area that prevents grass from growing there."