After A Year Mostly Indoors, Possibilities Bloom In A Schoolyard Garden

Teachers Rebekah Shyloski and Deric Quest gather with students around a raised bed outside the Greenwood School in Dorchester. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Most of the Sarah Greenwood School in Dorchester’s Grove Hall neighborhood is surrounded by cement, with four-square courts and some basketball hoops. The corner of its block is occupied by the crumbling facade of a former church — which occasionally sheds trash, even a knife and syringes, into the schoolyard.

Then, in between the two, on a narrow stretch of grass is the school’s new garden plot. Each week, it plays host to rotating groups of students from across the school’s eight grades, for the moment weeding, tilling and looking at things up close.

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