Cabot Community Park Secures Pro Bono Landscape Design Services
Cabot School Jabberwock, June 2008
We are very pleased to announce that PTO Cabot Community Park committee has recently secured pro bono landscape design services from the Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design (COGdesign) to further develop a planting plan for the outdoor learning environment at the Cabot Community Park. The goal is to provide a space where students and teachers can integrate lessons from the K-5 curriculum with the natural world. The space will also continue to be used as an attractive and quiet gathering place by the neighborhood.
Through COGdesign, we have been matched up with landscape designer and former Cabot parent Martha Gangemi, who coincidentally wrote the first draft of the grant proposal for Newton Community Preservation funds for the Cabot Community Park in 2004 that resulted in the installation of new walks, sitting areas and plantings. Gangemi is delighted to come full circle to design a planting plan for the space, working collaboratively with several members of the faculty, including Elizabeth Stahl and Patty Fiorenza, as well as the Cabot Community Park committee. Gangemi studied horticulture with the Royal Horticultural Society in London as well as design with the Landscape Institute in Cambridge.
COGdesign is a non-profit service organization of greenspace professionals and students dedicated to bringing quality landscape design to under-funded community organizations and neighborhood groups. These services become a catalyst for the development and stewardship of beautiful, safe, and useful public green spaces throughout our communities. (www.cogdesign.org)
In the coming months, as the garden is further developed, the Cabot Community Park committee will be looking for people to assist with amending the soil, planting, watering over the summer, and general garden maintenance. If you are interested in learning more about the planning process or how you can help develop or maintain the Park, please contact Cabot Community Park committee co-chairs Chris Kjellson or Margaret
Wazuka.
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