Tuesday, September 28, was one of the busiest garden workdays so far, and rainy too, but parents, students and CitySprouts staff dug in and got dirty—and it looks beautiful!
Many thanks to Alice, our garden coordinator, and CitySprouts exec director Jane Hirschi who kept planting in the wet, wet rain along with garden committee member Andy and even dynamo 5th grader Helen S. Also a tremendous thanks to Jan of Boston plantscaping firm Cityscapes, who brought a 7-foot stainless-steel growing frame along with bunches of beautiful plants. Jan spent three hours showing 10 students how to carefully plant in each panel, then with Alice's and Andy's help hoisted the panels onto the frame in our entrance hall. Jan's moving this beautiful living wall to the Tobin school for us in time for Saturday's CitySprouts School Garden Celebration, from 11 am to 3 pm. (Thanks also to Wade Lindhorst, who stayed his chipper self even though we overtook so much Community School classes space.)
Lastly, many thanks to JK assistant teacher Kristen Emack, who took gobs of great photos, many of them below. With her skills we were able to land an article about our school in Cambridge Day, with possibly more coverage to come. See the article here.
Great gardening project.
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