Students in Kostanay region grow medical plants

Pupils of  the Boskol school in Kostanay region grow over 3,000 medical and honey plants in a mini greenery. Each of them knows what different plants look like, Kazinform News Agency reports.

They can easily tell at a glance whether it is a river locust or savin or berberis. The teachers, representatives of the Karabalyk Forestry, NECO ecological club, and republican union of beekeepers of Kazakhstan Bal Ara support the students. Besides, the school won a certificate worth 650,000 tenge for the best schoolyard landscaping.

The school plans to expand its greenery up to 7,000 plants to create a school tree nursery. Next spring it will plant a mulberry tree, an oak, a Spanish chestnut, a blackthorn, a sea-buckthorn, an Engelman spruce, and an aglet.

In the future, the pupils and their teachers plan to open a bee garden and a beekeeping school.