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2014 Annual Report Public school gardens for teaching and learning September 2013-August 2014 ❙ 1 Our Mission The CitySprouts mission is to develop, implement and maintain beautiful, resource-rich school gardens in collaboration with public school communities. Integrated into the curriculum, CitySprouts gardens inspire teachers, students, and families with a deep, hands-on connection to the food cycle, sustainable agriculture and the natural environment. Board of Directors Darren Baird, Goulston Storrs Patricia Beggy, Cambridge Public Schools Jonathan Cosco, Mass. Department of Housing and Community Development Terrence Hayes, Siena Construction Bill Kane, BioMed Realty Brian Kelley, Cambridge Trust Company Maureen McCaffrey, MIT Investment Management Co. Brendan McCarthy, Brown Brothers Harriman and Co. Caitlin Murray, Goodwin Procter LLP Jeffrey Perrin, Lesley University Henry Vandermark, SolarWave Energy Inc. Advisory Board Angel Babbitt-Harris, Madison Park Development Corp. Karen Bressler, Community Servings Lisa Dobberteen, Cambridge Public Health Department Mahmood Firouzbakht, Nixon Peabody Holly Fowler, Northbound Ventures LLC Tamirirashe Gambiza, Cohn Reznick Tom Hamill, Redgate Real Estate Ryan Kim, Castle Island Partners LLC Daniel Langenthal, Experiential Education, Brandeis University Edith Murnane, Director of Food Initiatives, City Of Boston Nathan Papazian, Elevation Education Brian Swett, Environment, Energy and Open Space, City of Boston Petros Voulgaris, MFS Investment Management 2 ❙ CitySprouts Annual Report www.citysprouts.org Fall 2014 Dear Friends, What do we want for our children? We want schools that engage their curiosity and lead to meaningful learning. We want them to grow up strong and healthy, and practice good habits for life-long health. We want them to feel comfortable and confident in their natural environment, knowing they will be the future stewards of our earth. CitySprouts is proud of its contributions to making this a reality for every child, no matter where they live and regardless of their family’s circumstance. In the twenty urban schools with whom we partner in Cambridge and Boston, thousands of children are learning these very things in their school garden. More and more, teachers are making the school garden part of their teaching. Edible learning gardens are more than academics, though. They also give children a very real context for trying new vegetables and understanding their own, very local food system. For young middle-school students in Cambridge and Boston, the CitySprouts garden during out-of-school time is a real-world learning lab for growing food, turning it into delicious meals and getting familiar with their neighborhood’s ecology. All of this grows out of a simple schoolyard garden! With the support of families, teachers, public schools, city government and the business community, CitySprouts is taking root. We’re honored to welcome CitySprouts’ first Advisory Board: thirteen members of the community who bring a deeper level of advocacy for CitySprouts’ mission as we expand our programs further into Boston. We’re happy to share a few of the results from this past year and invite you to join us as we grow into the future. Sincerely, Bill Kane Board President Jeff Perrin Board Vice-President Jane Hirschi Executive Director What We Do CitySprouts gardens engage children in learning, promote good health and connect them to nature where they live, learn and play. Our school garden program partners with urban public schools to make garden-based learning part of every child’s experience–in-school and out-of-school–year round. We work with teachers, school leadership and public school advocates to make it possible for all children to have ready and ongoing access to this crucial resource by integrating garden-based learning in curricula, school culture and the neighborhood. Learning Gardens in Public Schools We develop and maintain sixteen edible outdoor classrooms in Cambridge and Boston elementary and middle schools. We work with two school districts to create learning environments in the schoolyard that meet teachers’ needs and build connections to the neighborhood. Places to dig, vegetable beds, pollinator beds and edible fruit are some of the common characteristics of CitySprouts’ learning gardens. School-Based Support for Teachers Our garden coordinators work on-site with teachers in twenty partner schools twice a week to extend classroom lessons to the learning garden. Gradelevel meetings, one-to-one planning and co-teaching in the garden are just some of the ways we partner with teachers to integrate the learning garden in students’ education. District science educators and school-based science specialists collaborate with CitySprouts to create hands-on science opportunities for students in the garden at every grade level, throughout the year. This fall, CitySprouts launched the CitySprouts Teacher Forum, an online community of practice for garden-based learning. Thirteen teachers from kindergarten to sixth grade presented their own garden lessons in science, math and English language arts. This online resource provides a forum for teachers to learn from and exchange ideas with each other. More sessions are planned for spring 2015. Visit www.citysprouts.org to download the archived webinars. Summer and After School Programs for Middle School Youth CitySprouts’ summer internship in Cambridge and our after school clubs in both Cambridge and Boston introduce young people to ecology and food systems through the school garden. In the summer, CitySprouts’ month-long internship is held at the four Cambridge middle schools. The 100 middle schoolers who complete the program learn the skills they need to grow and cook fresh produce, build their knowledge of urban ecology and food systems by making visits to local grocery stores, food pantries and other places in the community where food is distributed. Throughout the session, they explore issues in their own neighborhood where they can make a positive change. The youth-led projects that result from this process are shared with the community in the last week of the internship. All youth receive a $100 stipend upon completion of the month-long internship, a reflection of the value of what they’ve learned and their commitment to environmental stewardship as practiced in the school garden. 2 ❙ CitySprouts Annual Report Our Impact CitySprouts boosts children’s learning. More than 80% of partner teachers report that the school garden helps their students retain knowledge. 82% of partner teachers report that the garden is particularly effective for English language learners. “It’s such a simple pleasure to be outside with the students and watching math come alive. The connections between math, writing, and nature are inspirational.” – Monica Leon, Math Coach, Martin Luther King Jr. School With CitySprouts, teachers are making the garden their own. Two-thirds of all CitySprouts partner teachers made at least one classroom visit to the garden this year. In the Cambridge elementary schools, 83% of teachers taught classes in the garden. Boston and Cambridge teachers made over 1500 unique visits to their learning gardens this year. “Students are very engaged with CitySprouts activities. It is one of their favorite things about school and a bedrock of much of the learning and work they do in the classroom as well.” – Marty Wrin, 2nd grade teacher, Cambridgeport School CitySprouts inspires curiosity about the natural world in urban children. More than 7 in 10 CitySprouts partner teachers state that their school garden greatly increases student curiosity in the natural environment. 68% of partner teachers report that the CitySprouts gardens increase student comfort in being outside. “We used the garden last year during our plants unit and I see the students remembering a lot of the plants we tasted—and loving them! That knowledge about the edible plants and the excitement to try new foods has stuck with them.” – Linnaea Adams, 4th grade teacher, Graham & Parks School How Teachers Use the Garden Teachers use the elements of the garden to explain a concept, give students opportunities to discover its application, ask questions and explore. Garden-based learning is a foundation upon which to build the knowledge and skills all children need. Seeds Lettuce, radish, carrots, beans, corn and pumpkins... Spring in New England begins with planting seeds in the garden. Even before the first leaves appear, though, teachers have built lessons around the seeds themselves: sorting for patterns, for example, and using them as math manipulatives for counting and simple arithmetic. By May, teachers use the garden to practice estimation and probability when third and fourth graders estimate how many beans they will find in a given pod. They make a bar graph comparing predictions with the number of seeds each student actually found, then cook the beans for a special snack at the end of the unit. When school starts again in September, CitySprouts’ gardens are full of a wide variety of seeds, from the tiny seeds on a bolted lettuce plant to the flat, slippery seeds found inside tomatoes; the dramatic, ephemeral milkweed seeds and the rows of kernals on ripe corn cobs. Fourth graders document the many ways seeds travel and propagate. Kindergartners harvest pumpkins, and save the seeds they find inside to start the cycle all over again in the spring. Plants Classes visit the garden to record observations of plants at different stages in their life cycle. They watch for germinated seeds to pop up out of the earth, record when growth appears, note how fruit develops from flowers and then harvest and prepare for eating. In kindergarten and first grade, students taste, touch and sketch plants at different stages in their life cycle to document how they change over time. In the third grade, students plant seeds and seedlings as a part of their unit of study on plant parts and the life cycle. Fourth-grade students plant peas and beans and track their growth over time as a hands-on pre-algebra unit. Older students visit the garden to look for traits in plants as part of their genetics unit. They document differences within a particular species in leaf shape, number of flowers or any number of other traits to construct a frequency distribution table. Third grade seed project, Graham & Parks School “Students look forward to time in the garden. They have made connections to science content taught in the classroom (life cycle, organisms, nature). Sketching and scientific observation has improved greatly. Students are now drawing what they see, not what they imagine.” – Melissa Mihos, JK/K Teacher Graham & Parks School 4 ❙ CitySprouts Annual Report For the past two years, several seventh-and eighthgrade classes in CitySprouts schools in Cambridge have been part of the Ancient Grains Garden Project. These ancient grains (winter wheat, teosinte, amaranth and corn) create a unique learning space in the garden that teachers use to teach their students about science, social studies, health and wellness, math and ELA. Connections include measuring and recording data about the plant’s growth and exploring the history of grains throughout American history and in Mesopotamia. Bugs and Bees Soil is teeming with life, as students discover when they dig into a garden bed or the compost bin. Worms, slugs, centipedes and pill bugs are just a few of the creatures children discover, even in an urban schoolyard garden. The compost bin gives students a firsthand experience of the carbon cycle as they observe plants, vegetables and food scraps break down into nutrient-rich soil that they then shovel onto the garden. Bees and other pollinators demonstrate to children one way plant reproduction works. CitySprouts gardens have pollinator gardens (flower gardens) to attract the bees and butterflies necessary for plant reproduction. We leave milkweed in our gardens, for example, knowing it is food for monarch caterpillers (as well as a great seed-producing plant). In addition to attracting beneficial insects, the pollinator gardens play a part in deterring pests. Lady bugs, for instance, eat harmful aphids and also carry pollen as they journey through the garden. Students with few other examples of nature build knowledge about ecosystems. They see what interdependence looks like in the garden, a microcosm of the world. Weather and Climate The garden provides an ideal place to study the effects of weather. In fourth grade, students use rain gauges and thermometers to track temperature and rainfall over time. Students also come to the school garden in search of signs of erosion. They learn from their own experience how even simple plant root systems help to keep soil in place instead of washing away with the rain and snow melt. Many classes participate in Journey North, an international project to track climate around the globe. Students plant red emperor tulip bulbs in the fall. As spring arrives and the days grow longer, students track the growth of their tulip plants, submitting data online to be compared with climate information across the globe. Cider Pressing Every fall, CitySprouts garden coordinators make apple cider with students at all of our partner schools. This quintessential New England activity becomes a multidisciplinary learning opportunity for students of all ages. Back in the classroom, first-grade students develop their skills in procedural writing as they list the steps in pressing apples into cider from beginning to end. Second-grade students make predictions and observations as the apple mash decomposes. Fifth-grade students explore engineering in action as they identify simple machines–lever, wheel, axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, and screw–in the apple grinder and press. This activity sparks many kinds of writing, both narrative and descriptive. “This project helped me learn about physics. I think it helped me learn more than if we had just written notes. Drawing the parts of the cider press helped me to really understand the simple machines.” – 5th grader, Cambridgeport School September 2013-August 2014 ❙ 5 Out-of-School Time In our summer program for middle-school youth in Cambridge, 100 young people dive into learning more about the natural ecosystem in their school garden. Interns also learn about food and cooking. They practice reading and adapting recipes, learning knife skills and preparing produce for lunch in the outdoor garden kitchens. Interns take field trips to Greater Boston Food Bank and Gaining Ground Farm to learn more about how food is grown on a larger scale and how it gets to people in their community. “Compost is important because giving your food scraps back to the land can give your crops more nutrients than money can buy.” – Chris, 6th grade, Summer Intern “I think it’s important for kids to have gardening and cooking. Most kids — if you asked them — would say that they don’t know how to cook or they have never gardened before. People are losing their roots.” – Dylan, 6th grade, Summer Intern “ I have made Tajine, a Moroccan dish with squash, chickpeas and different Moroccan spices, and surprisingly, cinnamon.” – Beftu, Afterschool participant “I tried nasturtiums for the first time and it tasted spicy and herby and also flowery. I like the spicy taste, but I didn’t like the flowery taste.” – Anindita, 6th grade With funding from the Massachusetts Department of Secondary and Elementary Education, CitySprouts joined a cohort of six nonprofits to develop an open-source, out-of-school STEM and service learning curriculum this summer. Our new summer curriculum is built around four lessons on the natural ecosystem of the garden as well as the social ecosystem of the community. Youth interns consider where there are problems in environmental impact, people’s health or fairness around access to resources. Throughout the summer CitySprouts interns at each site found ways to have a positive impact on their community including: • Creating informative cards about vegetables to teach people in their community about nutrition. • Making a “how to” video on gardening for people in their community. • Donating food from their gardens for the hunger relief nonprofit Food for Free. • Writing a pamphlet on urban gardening, covering topics such as seed variety, composting, watering and soil testing for pollutants and nutrients. CitySprouts’ summer program benefits from college students who work closely with our staff to lead the eight youth teams in the morning and help care for the school gardens in the afternoon. This year, we were fortunate to have five college students from Smith College, Bryn Mawr, Carlton College and Vassar College who gave their time and talents to help make our summer youth program a success. We work closely with Cambridge Youth Program (CYP) in our summer youth internship. CYP, a program in the City of Cambridge Department of Human Services, provides a youth leader who works with our garden coordinator as part of the leadership team at two of our eight sites. They also help us recruit and select interns. This youth partnership helps to keep our summer program free to families and available to a more economically and culturally diverse group of young people. Our partnership in turn helps the City of Cambridge by creating a unique health and environmental opportunity for Cambridge youth. FoodCorps Partnership CitySprouts has been a partner with FoodCorps since its inception in 2011. FoodCorps is an AmeriCorps initiative to improve children’s education about and access to healthy, locally grown food. Our three FoodCorps service members in 2014 worked closely with CitySprouts staff to keep teachers connected to garden learning throughout the winter. They taught afterschool clubs and initiated garden-based learning projects and community events. After School Clubs CitySprouts after school clubs were in five middle schools in 2013-14. On their own or partnered with City Year and Citizen Schools, our three FoodCorps Service Members connected kids to growing and preparing food and healthy food choices. Students learned about local food systems and constructed seasonal extensions such as hoop houses. These simple garden bed covers meant students could taste locally grown arugula in January. “Giving kids an opportunity to take part in an after-school cooking club is a small change that has the potential to have a great impact. That one hour a week is giving students a space and an opportunity to be exposed to the wealth of knowledge surrounding food, cooking, and nutrition that they might not otherwise have.” – Jane Mulcahy, FoodCorps Service Member September 2013-August 2014 ❙ 7 Food in the Community Through our community partnerships, CitySprouts strengthens health initiatives in schools and neighborhoods. For instance, working with Cambridge Public Schools Nutritionist Dawn Olcott, CitySprouts helps introduce new dishes during lunch as part of the Tasty Choices program in the Cambridge Public Schools. Tasty Choices encourages children to taste and learn about healthy new foods focusing on international dishes. During Massachusetts Harvest Week, CitySprouts gave taste tests of herbs (basil, chives, oregano) to students. Once a month during the school year, CitySprouts oversees volunteers for the Greater Boston Food Bank mobile pantry at the Orchard Gardens Pilot School. Any family registered at the school has access to a wide variety of healthy food, including a range of produce. To support the school to home connection, CitySprouts provides recipes and taste testings for families. Dawn Olcott, MS, School Nutritionist Cambridge Public Schools 8 ❙ CitySprouts Annual Report Photo by Annujin Elbegdorj September 2013-August 2014 ❙ 11 CitySprouts would not be possible without the Donors over $10,000 A.C. Ratshesky Foundation Clipper Ship Foundation Doe Family Foundation Hermann Foundation Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Sand Dollar Fund Trefler Foundation Whole Foods Market Donors to $9,999 Acacia Fund BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. Genzyme Corporation Green Leaf Foundation John Hancock McPhail Associates, LLC Northbound Ventures Sarah W. Rollins Charitable Trust Schrafft Charitable Trust Seymour and Sylvia Rothchild Family 2004 Charitable Foundation Donors to $4999 AHA Engineers Albert O. Wilson Foundation Alexandria Real Estate Equities Arrowstreet Inc. Beacon Hill Garden Club Patricia Beggy Best Bees Biogen Idec Foundation Steve Bonsey and Elisabeth Keller The Boston Educational Development Foundation, Inc. Ken Boudreau Cambridge Community Foundation Cambridge Trust Company Chipotle Mexican Grill Draper Laboratory Elkus Manfredi Architects Ltd Peter Finnegan in memory of Mary Nelson Forest City Boston Google Goulston Storrs Bob and Happy Green Joanne Hilferty Jean Howard Moses and Alan Smilie Jack Johnson Foundation John Moriarty & Associates Bill and Marianne Kane Ryan and Jaime Kim Carolyn Lattin and Venkat Venkatraman Elizabeth Lyman Martin Fund Brendan and Leslie McCarthy McNamara/Salvia, Inc. 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Jon Scarlett and Janet Domenitz Ellie Schierloh Nicholas Schmid and Beverly Halliday Richard Schooler and Chantal Eide Emil Schultz Danielle and Zev Schuman-Olivier Karen Schwartzman Raleigh Shoemaker Anne Sholley Everett and Amy Shorey Anne Shumway Ryan Simmons Francey and Aaron Slater Seymour and Zoya Slive Arend Sluis and Mark Mulligan Carol Smith and Niels Sokol Helen Snively Anne and Tom Snyder Karen Sollins Pamela and Henry Steiner Dee Stonberg in memory of Mary Nelson Juliet Stone Alice Stowell Merily and Robert Swanson in memory of Mary Nelson Adrienne Sweetser Andrew Szentgyorgyi and Nancy Brickhouse Mary Ann and Roman Szporluk Robert Tagiuri Anne Tate and Bob Massie Daniel and Karen Taylor Telamon Human Capital Resources Group, LLC Diana Thomas Vidya Tikku Alice and David Ting Tobin School Sunshine Account in memory of Mary Nelson Terry Torres Faith and Joe Tracy Kathy Tu in memory of Mary Nelson Jillian Tuck in memory of Mary Nelson Alice Turkel and Mitch Ryerson Milton and Elsa Vanger Susan Waite Karylann and Bob Walsh Mike Walsh and Maureen Manning Ray and Joan Walther Wedgwood-Crane & Connolly Insurance Charles and Louise Weed Gordon and Susan Weir Sallyann Wekstein Jessie Wenning and Steve Watt Patricia Weston Bruce and Susan Wheltle Susan White Alan and Janice Wichlei in honor of Brendan McCarthy Lissa and Carter Winstanley Susan and Cooper Winston Alice Witkes Heather Woodcock and Dan Monahan Fred Yalouris and Charlotte Karney Sara Yen Please let us know if we have inadvertently left your name off this list, if you would prefer to be listed differently, or if you would prefer not to be listed. We apologize for any errors. September 2013-August 2014 ❙ 11 Thank you to our in-kind donors! Barcelona Wine Bar Big Apple Circus Bonny’s Garden Center Boston Duck Tours Boston Organics Brooklyn Boulders Catalyst Restaurant Charles River Kayak Chipotle Mexican Grill Core Power Yoga Craigie On Main Cuisine en Locale Dave’s Fresh Pasta Elephant Walk Farmers to You Flatbread & Co Gaining Ground Farm Randy Goodman Photography Henrietta’s Table Hungry Mother Improv Boston Liberty Hotel Life Alive Cafe L’Espalier Kings-Boston McGreevy’s Boston The MOTH Series Mistral Moo Restaurant Myers and Chang Nourish Your Soul Oleana Restaurant Ostra Post 390 Puritan & Company Rustic Kitchen and Bistro Toro Via Lago Catering Expenses and Revenue for Fiscal Year 2014 Expenses Program Expenses FY2014 School Partnerships 75% Youth Programs (summer and a1er school) 20% Community Partnerships 5% Revenue Program Revenue FY2014 Corporate Giving & Events 20% Individual Giving 25% Service Contracts 22% Grants 35% Data is based on unaudited financial statements. A complete set of audited financial statements is available upon request. 12 ❙ CitySprouts Annual Report The CitySprouts Timeline 2001 CitySprouts established at Haggerty and Harrington Schools in Cambridge 2003 602 Cambridge Public Schools students participated in CitySprouts in-school program 2007 Summer Youth Program begins 2008 Districtwide in Cambridge Public Schools Partnership with Cambridge Youth Program begins 2011 CitySprouts celebrates 10th anniversary Brendan McCarthy Caitlin Murray Jeffrey Perrin Henry Vandermark CitySprouts begins in Boston Public Schools FoodCorps partnership begins 2014 Over 6,000 students participate in CitySprouts in-school program in Cambridge and Boston Fall Teacher Forum launched September 2013-August 2014 ❙ 13 Cider pressing at Orchard Gardens Pilot K-8 School Public school gardens 16 ❙ CitySprouts Annual Report for teaching and learning 678 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel 617-876-2436 www.citysprouts.org Printed on paper with recycled content