Belmont High School

The garden was created by the Belmont High School Garden and Food Justice Club with the support of the Belmont Food Collaborative. Students built, planted and tended the garden during the spring. Over the summer students harvested and delivered the vegetables to the Belmont Food Pantry. The grant will allow them to add blueberry bushes to the garden area and to construct improved fencing. When the blueberries start bearing, the fruit will be donated to the Belmont Food Pantry along with the vegetables the students currently grow . Blueberries have been selected as crop that grows well in New England with reasonable management demands while providing a crop with excellent nutrients. Fruit is scarce in the available offerings at the Food Pantry; blueberries will help fill a nutritional need. Improved fencing will help to prevent garden predators, especially highly prevalent geese, from consuming or destroying crops.