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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Photo by Annujin Elbegdorj
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Draper Laboratory
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Boston Duck Tours
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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.
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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
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for teaching and learning
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