McDevitt Middle School garden began in the summer of 2007 with a modest effort:
With free soil amendments donated by Agway in Waltham, we dug up a small patch and planted beans, tomatoes and marigolds with the summer program students. In the fall, we had a tiny harvest and collected marigold seeds with the afterschool EcoTeam.
The next spring, we planted raspberry canes in this location, and a seedless Concord grape vine. That summer, the EcoTeam built McDevitt’s first raised bed. They wrote about this in their website.
This fall, the original McDevitt garden was a flourishing raspberry patch with a grape vine beginning to cover the fence:
