Member Project Spotlight
Cardinal Shehan School's "First Majestic Garden"
Starting in the Spring of 2008, third-graders from the Cardinal Shehan School, along with assistance from the Baltimore Food and Faith Project, St. Matthew’s Catholic Church, Baltimore Eats! magazine, Baltimore City Master Gardeners and Civic Works, helped to create a vegetable garden in an empty lawn behind the main school building. After mulling over many names, the students christened their space the “First Majestic Garden,” and helped to grow seedlings and plant tomatoes, peppers, peas, kale, spinach, pumpkins, carrots, radishes, beans, corn and herbs. Throughout the rest of the school year – and during the summer – students, teachers, parents and volunteers helped to weed, water and harvest, learning to garden and having great fun in the process. A compost bin was donated to teach the kids about reducing waste and creating free, healthy, sustainable fertilizer, and students learned about soil health, insects, ecosystems, nutrition, plant needs and many other useful things. Some of the produce was sold to parents to help raise money for this year’s garden, and we certainly enjoyed eating a lot of it ourselves! Come see what we've done, or Contact Us to lend a hand. 
Before the garden! Mrs. Byrd, Mrs. Redman, Bonnie North of Baltimore Eats! magazine, and Mrs. Smith surveying the land last January….
… and After!
3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Smith, and
students, Isiah and Carlos, showing off the colorful sign welcoming folks to the First Majestic Garden.
CSS parent, Mr. Andre Dean,, hard at work on building a raised bed – not bad for the first time!
3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Smith and school principal, Mrs. Redman, help to carry a newly built raised bed under the watchful eye of Master Gardener and raised-bed guru, Larry Kloze.
CSS Summer Schoolers harvest what
just may be the world’s largest radish…
…and present it to Mrs.
Redman.
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