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McDevitt garden – the beginning

Maria — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:18:26 +0000

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:

Building a Garden at McDevitt

Maria — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:36:58 +0000

This summer, a group of Waltham middle-schoolers built a raised-bed garden at the McDevitt Middle School as part of Healthy Waltham’s summer program. Read all about it in the Daily News Tribune article.

McDevitt Garden Interview

Maria — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:38:50 +0000

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: