Boston Green Academy

Our goal is to integrate garden education throughout the curriculum at Boston Green Academy. With this grant, we will have the opportunity to involve many different classes in the design, building, and maintenance of different types of garden technology, helping to connect students with real food and providing them the hands-on skills they will need to succeed in the green industry. We will also be able to increase our garden’s capacity, allowing us to hold larger garden events that reach out to our community food pantries, farmers markets and surrounding schools. We will also increase our extra-curricular offerings, providing enough space to run a small-scale educational farming project that we envision will continue into the summer as a youth employment opportunity. By expanding our garden, we will provide unique hands-on opportunities for curriculum-based projects, reach out to a wider community, and provide learning that our urban students would otherwise find inaccessible.