Young Children's Programs
Exploring the meadow
Children from the Waltham Boys and Girls Club visit the meadow at Christ Church Episcopal. This STEAM-learning, project-based, environmental education program exposes youth to the benefits of being outdoors in nature and empowers them to be environmental stewards. Older youth learn about “intentional gardening”—gardening with pollinator-friendly perennial native plants—with the intention of restoring biodiversity and offering youth environmental enrichment
Meadowscaping for Biodiversity started the first meadow with three cub scouts and their parents, and volunteers including a middle school science teacher and a landscape designer. Waltham Mayor Jeannette McCarthy dug holes and helped plant. We laid down new soil and planted many native flowers, shrubs, grasses, and ferns over the next two years.
Alessio Baggio, one of our first students designed and planted a meadow along the Charles River as one of the requirements for his Eagle Scout status.
Schoolyard Native Plant Gardens
These photos show planting the native plant schoolyard gardens at the Waltham Dual Language School
and Plympton Elementary School in Waltham with second graders in May 2023. CDQ Charitable Foundation
funded most of the project.
