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 [...]

In the summer of 2008, students from the McDevitt Middle School summer gardening program learned about growing vegetables at the garden located right outside their school.  Students interviewed Judy Fallows, Healthy Waltham’s Director and the force behind Waltham’s school gardens, about the McDevitt program.  The interview can be viewed here:

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