Summer Internship Recap

During the summer we hired 8 middle school students to intern in the garden with us for 4 weeks. The interns learned about growing food, cooking, nutrition, identifying plants & insects, food safety issues and of course how to care for a garden! We went on field trips to Community Servings in JP, Gaining Ground Farm in Concord, and the Food Project in Roxbury. We also worked with the Urban Ecology Institute weekly and had access to their wonderful knowledge and tools. Overall, it was a great success and a lot of fun!

Cambridge Chronicle Article

The Chronicle published an article about CitySprouts gardens on September 29, 2009. The article profiles the Amigos school and interviews two of our teachers!

Click on the link:
How does your garden grow? Garden program spreads through Cambridge Public Schools."

Garden Update

Hello again! In spite of our absence from the blogosphere, the King/Amigos garden has been tremendously busy over the past year! The current garden coordinators are Francey Hart for the M.L. King and Caitlin Rogers for Amigos. Here are a few photos to show you what we've been up to from April - November, 2009.

Shukri, Justin, Anthony, Quincy and Kassy enjoy a garden-fresh snack at the first King-Amigos Summer Drop-In (K.A.S.D.I.) of the season.

T.W.I.G. This Week In the Garden

Welcome Summer!

The first week of Summer brings many flowers, and the very beginnings of fruits and vegetables in the King/Amigos garden. Strawberries are ripening, sunflowers are opening, and bees are buzzing around, busy as can bee.


Speaking of busy, there is much to be done these days, so come out to the garden and lend a hand. Drop-In starts back up Thursday, June 26th, 3pm-5pm.



Activities include:
--transplanting tomatoes, melons and squash
--seeding cucumbers, summer greens, and herbs
--contouring beds
--collecting and drying herbs and flowers
--harvesting collard greens, tatsoi, mizuna, garlic scapes, and more, and creating a delicious, garden-fresh dish

See you in the garden!

T.W.I.G. This Week in the Garden

Volunteer Drop-In, Thursday May 22, 3-5

Activities Include:

• Dividing herbs from perennial garden; planting herbs and flowers by seed in pots around courtyard (including lemon basil, lettuces, cosmos, marigolds, spinach, coreopsis).
• Finishing Sign Project - ID'ing plants
• Making second bean pole for the Three Sisters Garden; planting beans
• Making trellis for peas
• Compost Critters: exploring our bin for worms and bugs
• Planting nigella and leeks in raised beds

See you in the garden!

T.W.I.G. This Week in the Garden

THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS!

The latest soil delivery is in the garden, and the grapes are planted - thank you to all the kids and adults who gave their time and energy to the project!

This week, join us at Volunteer Drop-In, 3:00-5:00, for a more mellow array of activities.

Including:

• Planting sunflowers, yard-long noodle beans, basil, dill, bleeding heart...
• Creating a fenced digging area for our littlest gardeners...
• Making artful bi-lingual signs for plant identification...
• and more!