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Teen Employment and Learning Programs
YEEP participants earn an hourly wage to apply what they learn about the value of native plants to biodiversity, pollinators, nature and and the food supply by planting gardens and meadows for customers. The YEEP students offer a wide range of meadowscaping services: removing invasive plants; designing native plant gardens and meadows; bu
YEEP participants earn an hourly wage to apply what they learn about the value of native plants to biodiversity, pollinators, nature and and the food supply by planting gardens and meadows for customers. The YEEP students offer a wide range of meadowscaping services: removing invasive plants; designing native plant gardens and meadows; buying and selling plants; and garden maintenance. To keep our staff, students, and soil safe, we do not provide traditional landscaping services such as mowing, appying pesticides, or leaf blowing. We follow the example and guidance of Doug Tallamy, director of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware in Newark, DE.
Newton High School student at the Mayor's Garden on the Waltham MA Common 2022
High school students from Belmont, Puerto Rico, Arlington, and Waltham having lunch in the shade at the Newton Centre site 2022
High school students from Belmont, Puerto Rico, Arlington, and Waltham having lunch in the shade at the Newton Centre site 2022
High school students from Belmont, Puerto Rico, Arlington, and Waltham having lunch in the shade at the Newton Centre site 2022
High school students from Belmont, Puerto Rico, Arlington, and Waltham having lunch in the shade at the Newton Centre site 2022
High school students from Belmont, Puerto Rico, Arlington, and Waltham having lunch in the shade at the Newton Centre site 2022
Italy-bound high school graduate and high school students from Arlington, Belmont, and Cambridge at Arlington Heights site 2023
High school students from Belmont, Puerto Rico, Arlington, and Waltham having lunch in the shade at the Newton Centre site 2022
Italy-bound high school graduate and high school students from Arlington, Belmont, and Cambridge at Arlington Heights site 2023
1853 William Flagg Homer House
Belmont Woman's Club, 530 Pleasant St., Belmont, MA
During COVID, MS4B organized a special project for Chenery Middle School and High School students in Belmont. They joined a service learning project at the William Flagg Homer House in Belmont Center, home of the Belmont Woman's Club. The students worked hard, had fun, and toured the house where Winslow Homer, the historic 19th century painter spent his summers. Along with representatives of the Belmont Woman's Club, they removed invasive Japanese knotweed and other invasive plants, planted native plants, pruned bushes, and cleaned up the property.
Invasive Plant Removal
Our team of staff, high school and college students, and volunteers removes invasives from all kinds of properties. In the photo, Belmont High School student Derek Huang removes invasive Oriental bittersweet from Kennard Park in Newton Centre, MA. Oriental bittersweet and other invasives such as Japanese wisteria become thick, heavy, and rope-like, climbing up tree trunks and pulling down otherwise healthy trees limb by limb.
Kennard Park - Newton Centre
In 2020, for the Newton Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program, we brought together Newton High School students and Brandeis University students to remove invasives from a beautiful city park. We removed a 22 ft.-long Oriental bittersweet root and many other invasives before planting 50 native plants.
Students remove invasives at private residence