Commandants House Garden Maintenance
One of the first projects we worked on was doing some maintenance on the commandant house garden in the Charlestown Navy Yard. The Navy Yard was where naval ships were […]
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Speaking for the Trees
On the weekend of October 27 we started speaking for the trees! How do you speak for trees you may be asking. Well, we did it using this app called […]
Teambuilding
Ponkapoag or Punkapaug is the Native American “praying town” settled in the western Blue Hills area of Eastern Massachusetts during the colonization by settled Britain in the 17th century. Ponkapoag […]
Falling!
Greetings everyone, During our second week of the program, we had the opportunity to go to Medicine Wheel/No Man’s Land which is connected to Dorchester Heights. We met Michael, […]
Welcome 2018-2019 Ambassadors!
Hello! We are the Branching Out School year ambassadors of 2018-19. We are excited to be working with Branching Out Program and to experience new things that we can share […]
Olm-Steady!
Olmsted National Historic Site This week, the field team visited Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline, MA. The Olmsted house was built in 1810 and acquired by Frederick Law Olmsted […]
It’s Not Goodbye, It’s See You Later
The past seven months have gone by to quickly, it feels like just the other day the program was just being started but it now sadly coming to a end. […]
Constructing a Raised Garden Bed
What do you do when you have poor soil quality, want to protect your plants from pests, and need a planter that has great drainage? Consider constructing a raised bed! […]
Orchard Integrative Pest Management at Minute Man National Historical Park
We returned to Minute Man National Historical Park to finish the orchard that we had began back in the fall. We worked with Margie Coffin-Brown who is the resource manager […]
Cut Flower Gardens and Making Floral Arrangements
In February, the Boston school year ambassadors, participated in a Floral Arrangement workshop with New York City team. We connected through Google Hangout and live video stream, it was nice […]
