​​Meadowscaping for Biodiversity (MS4B)

MS4B is project-based STEAM-learning outdoor environmental enrichment and employment program. MS4B offers two types of programs.

Meadow Clubs and Camps

• Specialty summer camps and after-school programs 
• Youth age 7 - 14 learn about biodiver-sity, ecology, and earth stewardship
• Repurpose lawn into pollinator patches and meadows
• Native plants, shrubs, and grasses...and bees and butterflies

The Youth Environmental Entrepreneurship Program (YEEP)

• Teens age 15 - 19
• Teens learn about gardening with native plants as well as how to create and run a business
• College intern team leaders/ mentors guide the youth through the operation of a specialty service business
• Youth sell and install native plants for residential and business customers
• ​Youth receive an hourly wage during summer employment 
• Youth gain 21st Century career-readiness skills 

Both MS4B program areas emphasize hands-on, project-based learning in the great outdoors! And we strive to empower participants to become stewards of the Earth and to take charge of their futures.

What can one person do about climate change? 

Waltham, Massachusetts-based outdoor environmental education program for students of all ages.

• 8-unit curriculum and fun, engaging activities
• Educate citizen scientists and stewards of the Earth to try to resolve challenges to the environment and human society.
• Participants repurpose monocultural turf lawn into meadows--productive, attractive ecosystems gardens with native flowers, shrubs, and grasses
• Increase biodiversity, pollinator and wildlife habitat

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Youth Install Native-Plant Pollinator Patches and Meadows

Meadowscaping team after just finishing a new meadow at Phyllis Norwood's home in Woburn, MA. Phyllis is shown on left. 

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2018​ ​Plant Catalog

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Why Native Plants?
​Doug Tallamy's ​"Gardening for Life." 

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Hardy, Drought-Tolerant 
​Native Plants

Native plants were growing in this area before Europeans brought other plants here. Native insects evolved with these plants and can subsist only on those specific indigenous flowers, grasses, shrubs, and trees.

Ornamental and invasive plants are popular with gardeners but they detract from the biodiversity of an area by replacing local plants, which are essential to building biodiversity in ecosystems. Invasive plants grow rapidly in new areas because the changing climate may benefit them more and local animals can't subsist on them. ​

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