Sign Up Here! The Bailey Middle School Native Plants & Animals Booster Club is organizing a clean-up day for our nursery and chicken coop areas on Saturday, October 10th from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm. We're asking for help from our Bailey families and community members to tackle the following tasks: Clean up nursery area (pick up trash, organize equipment) Mow and weedwack around nursery and chicken coop Build picnic tables for new outdoor learning area Fix broken equipment (hoses,

Now that our chickens and ducks are getting bigger and the weather is dropping below 100°, we’re ready to host our first Native Plants and Animals after school club meeting next week! Students and their families are welcome to join us on Thursday, September 24th from 4:00 - 5:00 PM at the picnic tables by the chicken coop. If you did not opt-in your student to all school clubs while registering them, you’ll need to sign a permission slip allowing them to attend NPA Club speci

In late 2025, Bailey Middle School's Native Plants and Animals program was awarded the Urban Forest Grant by the City of Austin to plant a new grove of trees in front of the school. Our NPA Booster Club applied for this grant as part of our "Cool the Campus" campaign to make the school grounds shadier for both students and wildlife. Our campus has a very low canopy cover, and most sidewalks are exposed to full sun throughout the day. By strategically planting new trees on our

We had our first successful butterfly release today! Ms. Tafoya found Monarch butterfly eggs on the zizotes milkweed that is located in the athletic fields at Bailey Middle School several weeks ago. Since this is a high traffic area, she brought the eggs and harvest stalks of milkweed into the classroom. After several weeks, the Monarch butterfly hatched, and today she and her students released it into our butterfly garden! Check out the video below (although if you blink, yo

We were beyond excited by the number of attendees, education partners, entertainers, and more at our second annual Butterfly Fest and Native Plant Sale! We estimate that probably 400-500 people passed through the school grounds, and the NPA Booster Club was able to successfully fund its budget for the 2026-27 school year from the plant sale. Last year's profits enabled us to purchase 5 new picnic tables to create an outdoor classroom for the program, and we're already brainst