Garden Grows with Attleboro Community's Helping Hands

students made history on Saturday morning as dozens of students, parents, staff and Attleboro Mayor Kevin Dumas cut the ribbon to the school's community garden. 

Prinicipal Catherine Zinni told students, who surrounded the garden, that they were part of history and that it should be celebrated. 

Students including first-grader Arianna Newth, third-graders Madeline Garfinkel and Jenna Gittle and many other Willett students lined up to share poems they wrote about the garden during a poetry slam. 

Mayor Kevin Dumas congratulated the students and presented the school a certificate of recogition for their "Willett outdoor experience."

"With our hands in the garden, in the dirt, watching the rain, pulling the weeds that we are going to understand natural cycles, mathematics, nutrition, healthy living and a sustainable world," said Margie Kelley-Fitzpatrick, the garden's organizer.  "It's a gift from all of us to eachother."

Kelley-Fitzpatrick thanked toward the garden, the many families who helped build the garden and the many local businesses including Liston Landscaping, Home Depot andwho contributed supplies and their time to the effort.