The CitySprouts School Garden Celebration on Saturday at the Tobin School was well attended and a terrific success for CitySprouts, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. It was also a great day for Cambridgeport. Our table with its informational display about our woodland shade garden and research about vertical gardening (which included information about Woolly Pockets and Green Living Technologies' growing panels) generated a lot of interest. The GLT living wall, courtesy of Jan Goodman at Cityscapes in Boston, brought many people to our table. Everyone who stopped by was either amazed or excited for us. School Superintendent Jeffrey Young was surprised at the different types of vertical growing and super enthusiastic. City Councillor Leland Cheung listened carefully about our school's shortage of sunny space and all our plans. He asked to keep him posted—he may have a lead for us re possible funding. Lastly, with the enterprising help of C'port middle schoolers and CitySprouts summer interns Kester and Allie, donations for our garden totaled $86. Thanks Allie and Kester!
Just as exciting, the day before the event two different articles about our garden plans appeared in the Cambridge press—the links are here:
Cambridge Chronicle — Cambridge’s CitySprouts celebrates edible wall, new garden
Cambridge Day — Cambridgeport kids bring 'edible walls' to CitySprouts celebration Saturday
Below are photos of our display at the event. Also be sure to check out the Cambridgeport PTO website, which has additional photos from planting day September 28.
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