Summer Internship Begins!

Five Kennedy-Longfellow middle school students have been chosen to participate in the CitySprouts summer internship: Nathan Harbinson, Tommy Ward, Hannah Correia, Diana Depina Barbosa and Ivan Norman (left to right). We began June 22nd and will be working and learning in the garden every week Monday - Thursday, 9:00 - 12:00, until July 16th.

Thank you to all of the K-Lo student applicants!

Here are some pictures from the first week:

Summer Drop-In Hours

Garden Drop-In hours for the summer are 4:00 - 5:30pm on Mondays. Family, friends and neighbors are welcome. Children under 10 must be supervised by an adult. See you there!

We've been having a great time in our gardening class at the KLS CitySprouts Garden. It's hard to believe this is our last session this week already.Unfortunately, it looks like it will be a rainy day. We were lucky that we only had one other rainy day - our first class! Since then we had a fun time with 9 young gardeners.

Here's what we did:

• We planted marigolds and beans.
• Everybody chose a plant to follow and put their name on a stick next to the plant.
  
• We created Gardening Journals and worked on them during each class.
• We planted a Budlia (Butterfly bush)
• We did a soil test but putting soil in small jars with some water. When we came back the next week, Caitlin explaned how the soil settles in layers to show what is in the soil.

Over the summer each CitySprouts garden will be taken care by middle school students who will be taking part in a great summer intership program. Students come and water the garden and keep everything going until it's time to come back in September and celebrate the garden harvest.

Kennedy Longfellow School classes have also been enjoying the garden - The Junior Kindergarden Class visited the garden recently release some butterflies that they had been caring for in their classroom.


These photos of the garden taken by Photographer Megan George. Enjoy!