About the Cambridgeport Garden

The Cambridgeport Garden is a project started in 2010 in collaboration with City Sprouts, a Cambridge-based non-profit that works with all Cambridge elementary schools to create learning gardens in their schoolyards and to supports teachers' use of the gardens as a direct extension of their classroom teaching.

A committee of parents, teachers, family liaison, and City Sprouts representatives, began meeting in February 2010 to plan and design garden spaces on Cambridgeport School property.

All interested community members are welcome to join the Committee, come to our meetings, or help us dig and plant.  Alice Gugelmann is our City Sprouts garden coordinator. For more information about the Cambridgeport Garden Committee or to join, please contact Shirley Harvey, family liaison, sharvey@cpsd.us. For more information about CitySprouts, or to volunteer, please contact info@citysprouts.org, or call 617-876-2436.

More information:

- CitySprouts functions in partnership with CPSD, school administration, and school community
- What CitySprouts provides: part-time seasonal staff person (Garden Coordinator), Professional Development for Teachers (led by CS Education Consultants Joe Petner and Frank Meehan), Volunteer matching to help installation and future projects
- What CPSD provides: funding (line item in the budget), relationship with Science Department (writing garden lessons into existing curriculum & doing teacher training around these units – this is a new initiative and will be piloted this spring at Peabody and Amigos schools)
- What school administration provides: funding (contracts with principals), dedicated time for professional development with teachers
- What parent community provides: help building garden, form school garden committee (which has its own set of responsibilities – fundraising, communication, event planning – see School Garden Committee document)