Green & Grow Summer Interns are Back!

The Conservancy is so excited to have our summer interns again!  Joining us this year (from the left of Darrah, a Greenway Horticulturist) are: Waverly, Andrew, Humberto, and Sam.  All have graduated from the Green & Grow Apprenticeship Program and Sam and Waverly both completed the summer internship in 2012.  “Things have really grown, I […]

Growing Greener: Farewell to Summer

We had an amazing season with the Green & Grow Summer Interns —they add energy, strength, and vitality to our already awesome horticulture staff. Learn more about the four young people who worked with our staff this summer and were the primary care takers of the Dewey Demonstration Gardens.

First Dewey Harvest Donated

We have donated our first batch of home grown veggies to Lovin’ Spoonfuls—a local nonprofit that collects and distributes food to crisis centers, soup kitchens, and other social service entities.

Growing Greener

“All those learning sessions in the classroom, how to do this and how to do that, and where to put things, that all paid off when we went to Dewey. We already knew what we were doing, all we had to do was just do it.”

Growing Greener

In the words of Green & Grow Apprentice Randi “I feel really good about being involved in the Dewey project. It’s nice to know that my suggestions will actually be used and that people are going to benefit from our work.”

Life on the Greenway

To understand why we’re installing composting bins in the Dewey Demonstration Gardens, we spoke with Jessica, one of our Green & Grow leaders.