Today was one of the most fun days I've had at Sport in Society, as Lucy, Kristen, Caitlin, Meghan and myself worked with members of The Food Project to build gardens in Dorchester. This was a wonderful experience, and I would like to thank Andrew Olson from Northeastern's Center for Community Service for organizing the event. The Food Project is an amazing organization that produces healthy food for residents of cities and suburbs by building them gardens, and showing them farming techniques. Find out more about The Food Project on their website.
To build the gardens, we drilled together pieces of wood so they formed a rectangle either three by five feet, or four by eight feet, and about a foot and a half high. We then placed protective tarps underneath the rectangles, and put nutritious soil on top of the tarps to complete the garden. Since much of the soil in Boston is either contaminated or unfit for growing plants, we had to use soil that had been delivered to us. Overall, we built 21 gardens!
Another exciting exciting aspect of today was that we got to meet, and work with some of our summer interns for the first time. Mitch, Nathan, and Andre all did an excellent job, and if today is any indication of the future they will be great additions to the Sport in Society team! Another intern, James has been working here for the past few weeks, and it has been very pleasant having him around the office. The rest of the interns start tomorrow, and I am looking forward to meeting them!
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