EngAGE Stories

A partnership between the Burbank Community Day School and the Burbank Senior Artists Colony is creating a garden to grow not only vegetables and trees, but also a stronger feeling of community in that neighborhood.

Currently, there is a dirt lot adjacent to the staff parking lot on the school’s campus. The seniors and students are working together vigorously to produce a comprehensive garden that includes a learning center, fruit tree orchards, raised gardening beds, a tortoise garden for the school’s pet tortoise Kobe, a bio retention swell, social center, benches, paths, trails, a memorial rose garden, storage and tools sheds, and a work area.   The project is supported by active collaboration between students, seniors, Master’s students from the landscape architecture school at UCLA, TreePeople, master gardener Sharon Springer and staff from EngAGE.

The team is looking for donations of supplies and sponsorships to raise more than $5,000 to fully fund the ambitious project. Take a look at the progress so far in these great photos from the official ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 27th! Click here to see more pictures (including a diagram of the complete garden) and follow the continuing progress in our Flickr “Community Day School Garden” photo album. Also see two more photo album links below.

Teddi Shattuck, BSAC

Teddi Shattuck, BSAC

Chris Krohn, Burbank Community Day School

Burbank Community Day School Student Gardeners

The ribbon is cut!

Contributed by Tim Carpenter, Teddi Shattuck, Sally Connors, Chris Krohn, Jim Carroll (see more of his photos here), Wendy James (see more of her photos here).