Press & Publications
Loss in federal funding hits hard for CitySprouts, Charles River Conservancy, and Green Cambridge. Read the full press release here. May 20, 2025
‘My confidence grew’: Tilling gardens sprouts more than just summer fruit for students living in urban areas, by Natalie La Roche Pietri on The Boston Globe. August 7, 2024.
Mayor Michelle Wu visits a CitySprouts garden at the Higginson Lewis K-8 School in Roxbury, by Grace Zokovitch on Boston Herald. July 24, 2024.
CitySprouts is proud to be part of the movement to expand outdoor learning with Boston Public Schools partners through Mayor Michelle Wu’s GrowBoston initiative that elevates school garden classrooms as essential learning spaces for Boston students. Read the full press release here.
CitySprouts spotlighted in the Institute for the Study of Resilience in Youth (ISRY) and STEM Next’s Family Engagement report.
CitySprouts received a 3-year, $150,000 Cummings Foundation Grant! Read the full press release here.
In CitySprouts new book, ‘We Garden Together,’ projects are cream of the crop from 22 years, by Alma Barak on Cambridge Day. An interview with CitySprouts founder Jane Hirschi on her newest book We Garden Together! March 14, 2023.
A debut story collection, a gardening book encourages kids, and more, by Nina McLaughlin on The Boston Globe. March 9, 2023.
Press Release: We Garden Together! Projects for Kids: Learn, Grow, and Connect with Nature, by CitySprouts founder Jane Hirschi, CitySprouts educators, and Photography by Kim Lowe.
CitySprouts welcomes our new Executive Director, Susan Diller Full Press release in the link.
Let’s celebrate STEM week by expanding career pathways for youth “A new Rennie Center case study…highlights how three partner organizations (CitySprouts, Courageous Sailing and Sociedad Latina) provide robust, fun, engaging activities featuring culturally responsive, relevant material that incorporates real-world issues.”
Press Release: Three new partnerships with CitySprouts ensure more Boston children learn science outdoors. CitySprouts grows three new garden classrooms in Boston.
CitySprouts school garden program improves science learning equity piece by CitySprouts Advisory Council member Jeff Perrin published in the national Children and Nature Network’s “Finding Nature News”, April 2022
CitySprouts is selected as a grant recipient in Takeda's U.S. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program, to support and strengthen our after school and Summer Young Leaders Program.
CitySprouts Begins a New Science Partnership with the Nathan Hale School. CitySprouts is proud to announce our latest school partner, the Nathan Hale School, in Roxbury. We are so happy to engage a new community in outdoor education!
Ripe for Change: Garden-Based Learning in Schools, by CitySprouts Executive Director Jane Hirschi, reveals a wealth of resources to show how garden-based learning is being implemented in a systematic way in public education, and offers next steps to widen and deepen the practice to reach children in all schools. Taking a big-picture view of the school garden movement and the state of garden-based learning in public K-8 education, the book frames the garden movement for educators and shows how school gardens have the potential to be a significant resource for teaching and learning.
“Taking the Common Core Outdoors.” CitySprouts Executive Director Jane Hirschi’s article in the Harvard Education Letter of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Harvard EdCast: Roots of the School Gardening Movement. Listen to Matt Weber of the Harvard Graduate School of Education interview Jane Hirschi on the Harvard EdCast!
School Gardens Can Help Kids Learn Better And Eat Healthier. So Why Aren’t They Everywhere? Huffington Post article featuring CitySprouts and the history of the school garden movement.
Hands in the Dirt. CitySprouts Executive Director Jane Hirschi’s op-ed in Education Week. February 18, 2015.
Boston School Gardens Receive Whole Kids Foundation Grants. CitySprouts announces the receipt of Whole Kids Foundation grants at four Boston partner schools. January 12, 2015.
Harvest Helpers: Cambridge students learn about plant life cycles with CitySprouts. The Cambridge Chronicle profiles CitySprouts’ work in the Morse School. October 17, 2014.