We're back, folks! Cambridgeport's garden is taking off! Keep checking back for updates and photos—lots of exciting garden news coming this fall.
Tuesday, September 28: Planting Day! Eveyone is welcome to help plant Cambridgeport's Woodland Garden after school, 2 to 5:30 pm. We'll be planting rhododendron, mountain laurel, dogwood and other native shade plants behind the school. We will ALSO be planting colorful cabbages, chards and pppers into a mobile vertical growing frame, courtesy of CityScapes in Boston. No other school in Cambridge or Boston has a vertical growing system like this!
Saturday October 2: CitySprouts School Garden Celebration. Come see what all the K–8 schools in the district have been up to with their gardens during the past year. The theme of Cambridgeport's display is "Getting a Garden Off the Ground" and will focus on vertical gardening. At the Tobin School, 11am to 3pm—held outdoors if the weather is good, indoors in the cafeteria in case of rain.
Notes from Cambridgeport Garden Committee Meeting
September 14, 2010
Attendance: Alex (parent), Shirley Harvey (parent liaison), Andy (parent), Monica (parent), Katie (principal), Jason (chef at Bondir Restaurant at 279A Broadway), Alice Gugelmann (CitySprouts)
Agenda:
- Upcoming planting and event dates
- Vandalism prevention in new woodland garden
- Plan for Cport’s table at CitySprouts’ Garden Celebration, Oct 2nd
Action list:
- Alice will confirm and order plants, mulch, compost for Sept 28th planting days, talk with Amy the art teacher about making signs for plants, make flyers to hand out to neighbors
- Alex will complete a sketch of raised beds in time for Tuesday 21st Back-to-School night, and will pick up birch logs for border on weekend of 24th
- Monica will publicize Sept 28th planting day and Garden Celebration Day, and will continue to work on displays for “Getting a Garden off the Ground” table
1. Vandalism prevention in new woodland garden:
- To curb potential vandalism in the newly planted, back-alley garden, we will consider lighting the space (flood lights? Christmas tree lights in the trees, like in Inman Square?), so that kids can’t loiter there in the complete dark. Also, to make it clear that the space is by and for children, we’ll put up children-made signs with plant names and information. We’ll send out flyers to the adjacent neighbors to ask them to keep an eye out.
2. Cambridgeport’s table at the CitySprouts Garden Celebration (11 to 3pm, Oct 2nd, Tobin School)
- Monica has pulled together the materials and theme (Getting a Garden off the Ground) for the Cport table, focusing on vertical gardening and the process by which Cport has built garden space.
- Monica needs help staffing the table on Oct 2nd! Please contact her if you can be there for an hour or two - mvelgos@pipeline.com
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