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Anthony maurice Coles, 51, of
Edgewood; Larry Donnell
Beasley, 69, of Windsor mill; and
raymond Leroy mason Jr., 31, of
Baltimore, are each charged with
multiple counts of theft and
conspiracy to commit theft.
maryland State Police
arrested Coles and Beasley on
Nov. 5 and mason on friday.
Pending trial, Beasley was
released on his own
recognizance and Coles was
released on $15,000 bond.
mason is being held on
$15,000 pending a bail review
hearing.
Atlantic recycling Group
reported in June it suspected
people associated with the
company it hired to transport
scrap metal from rockville to
the Port of Baltimore were
stealing much of it, state police
said.
Cargo containers were
arriving at destinations “vastly
underweight” c ompared with
original weighted totals, police
said. The estimated value of the
missing scrap metal is about
$425,000, police said.
Neither Coles nor mason had
an attorney listed in court
records; Beasley is being
represented by a public
defender.
— Baltimore SunmarylandMan released from jail
is struck, killed by carA man was fatally struck by a
vehicle in Upper marlboro, md.,
hours after leaving county jail,
authorities said.
Nathan frazer, 31, of New
Hampshire, had been taken to
the jail about 2 a.m. by Prince
George’s County police on
Thursday and released on
personal recognizance at
6:51 p.m. that day, according to
the Prince George’s County
Department of Corrections.
frazer left the jail about
7:14 p.m. and was hit by a
northbound car about 8:50 p.m.
near Brown Station road and
Dille Drive, authorities said.
officers called to the scene
found frazer critically injured in
the road, where he was
pronounced dead.
— Lynh BuiMen charged in theft
of scrap metalThree Baltimore-area men
have been charged in
montgomery County in
connection with a scheme to
steal more than $400,000 of
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washingtonpost.com/local/lotterylotteriesher see relationships between her
local environment and larger is-
sues she learns about in school or
hears about on the news, she said.
“right now, the environment’s in
crisis, with the forest fires in the
Amazon,” she said in September.
“That concerns me.”
The forest garden is already
meeting some of its goals. Third-
graders point out evidence of deer
grazing on plants with the exper-
tise of naturalists. one girl makes
her way to the Asian pear tree
almost hidden against the school-
yard’s back fence and drops the
fruit into her backpack.
But it will take time for some of
Yamamoto’s plans to fully ripen.
Hazelnut trees planted in the
spring are waist-high twigs with a
few wrinkled, brown-edged
leaves; edible nuts are still years
away.
The school setting also pres-
ents challenges. High-energy ele-
mentary students can trample
plants and cause soil erosion.
They sometimes pick fruit when
it’s not ripe. Yamamoto sets rules
but allows students to bend them
— to a point — if it keeps them in
the garden. She estimates main-
taining the garden will require
$500 to $1,000 a year, which will
come from market proceeds; D.C.
staff will prune and mulch trees.
Capital City’s food forest might
be the only school-based food for-
est in the District and maybe even
the mid-Atlantic, but it won’t h old
that title for long. Smith is already
designing a second one at the
District’s Langley Elementary
School for next year. And leaders
at Horace mann Elementary
School have approved their own
food forest. The grant and match-
ing funds will cover both projects,
D.C. forester Chapman says.
“If we can make spaces where
trees can thrive, then people can
probably do well there as well,”
said Eutsler of the Urban forestry
Division. “It’s poised to be repli-
cated many times.”
[email protected]ecology, cooking and food justice
for the school’s s tudents.
How that looks, of course, var-
ies by grade. morgan Grubbs, who
teaches first grade, looks to imbue
her students with a “sense of mag-
ic,” while also reinforcing science
lessons.
“right now, they’re often
scared of bees and will see them
and run. But when spring comes,
after they’ve spent all semester
learning about pollinators and
how bees are important, they’ll
see bees and run up to them,” s he
says.
Ellen royse, who teaches high
school environmental science
and urban ecology at Capital City,
started using the forest pedagogi-
cally even before it existed: Last
year, after learning of Yamamoto’s
plans, she had her urban ecology
students survey the plants and
insects in the site selected for the
forest. They found mostly crab-
grass and English ivy, and a few
insect species. This year’s class
will return and resurvey. As the
trees and shrubs grow, so will the
students’ ability to see connec-
tions between a place’s flora and
broader metrics of environmen-
tal quality.
royse sees a second benefit:
exposing students who will soon
enter the work world to lesser-
known career possibilities. When
Smith came to speak to her class,
“kids were like, ‘This is his job? He
goes around and plants things
and harvests food?’ ” s he said.
Career preparation is the pri-
mary appeal of the garden for
Nuri Cortez, an 11th-grader tak-
ing royse’s class. She and her
peers run a weekly farmers mar-
ket selling vegetables and herbs
from the garden alongside pro-
duce from local farms. once the
food forest starts producing ber-
ries and nuts, those will be added
to the mix. Cortez hopes the mar-
keting and people skills she learns
will help her start a food store in
her parents’ native Bolivia.
The forest garden also helpsterms of what the outside can
offer as a classroom.”
Eutsler had already been look-
ing for a place to plant the Dis-
trict’s first food forest. He and
Jack Chapman, a D.C. forester
whose children attend Capital
Ci ty, got a $30,000 grant from the
U.S. forest Service’s Chesapeake
Watershed forestry Program and
matched it with $30,000 of Dis-
trict money. They hired Lincoln
Smith, a Bowie, md., landscaper
who specializes in native edibles.
Smith drew up a plan to cover
more than a third of an acre of the
school grounds with 74 varieties
of food-bearing trees, shrubs and
perennial plants. Some, such as
pecan trees, could someday tower
as tall as an oak. others, such as
apples and serviceberries, will
keep their fruit within reach — at
least of taller high-schoolers.
Between April and June, with
Yamamoto supervising, D.C. con-
tractors installed the trees.
School staff, teachers, students
and volunteers planted the rest of
the food forest, filling one edge of
the field and even spilling outside
the school’s fence into an area
that abuts the sidewalk.
The hope is that community
members as well as students and
parents benefit from the harvest.
for Smith, who has designed
food forests for maryland cities
such as Hyattsville and Greenbelt,
a school is an ideal setting. “If you
don’t have people in the food
forest using it and learning from
it, then obviously it’s failing,” he
said. “A t a school, you have that
baked in.”
forest gardens at schools can
also help urban children and
adults regain once-common
knowledge about food and nutri-
tion. “I’ve been to locations where
kids are around fruit, but they
don’t e ven know it’s e dible,” S mith
said.
Integrating the forest garden
into the school is Yamamoto’s
next job. She is working with
teachers to design lessons aroundshe said. “Not when it’s super-
duper hot.”
other students soon joined and
plunked tomatoes into additional
bowls. Later that afternoon, those
same tomatoes were sold by 10th-
and 11th-graders at Capital City’s
weekly garden market. (And, yes,
a few of the juicy tomatoes made
their way into students’ mouths.)
overlooked in the hunt for
bugs and fruit were dozens of
small trees and shrubs mixed in
with the vegetables, herbs and
flowers — some little more than
twigs in the ground. But over the
next few years, if all goes as
planned, they will grow to domi-
nate this space and produce foods
rarely eaten in today’s fast-paced,
grocery-store-dominated world.
School vegetable gardens are
common nowadays. food forests
— biodiverse, edible landscapes
anchored by fruit- and nut-bear-
ing trees and shrubs — not so
much. They require expertise to
design and maintain, and years to
grow before producing much of
anything — a combination not
often found at schools where
teachers and administrators are
already stretched thin and turn-
over can be high.
But Capital City has Yamamo-
to. She recalls picking plums and
using bamboo poles to knock ripe
persimmons from trees in her
family’s yard while growing up in
Japan. When she came to the
United States, she encountered
vast ecological and nutritional
deserts known as American
lawns. “It seemed like a waste of
space,” s he said.
When Capital City moved to its
current home in 2012, Yamamoto,
whose children attend the school,
saw mostly barren grounds there,
too: “It was nothing. It was not
well taken care of, just some trees
and plantings.”
She was soon hired and began
converting the edge of a sun-
soaked sports field behind the
school into a vegetable garden.
She planted a few pawpaws, figs
and pear trees, which now tower
so high she needs a ladder to
harvest the fruit.
But Yamamoto wanted some-
thing closer to the bounty of her
youth — and to the fruit- and
nut-filled forests that are the na-
tive ecosystem of the D.C. region.
She found common cause with
the city’s Urban forestry Division,
which is on a mission to increase
the city’s tree canopy to 40 per-
cent. It has planted trees in thou-
sands of roadside tree boxes and
in city-owned parks and green
spaces but remains a few percent-
age points short of its goal.
Schools such as Capital City are
among the few places in the Dis-
trict left with large expanses of
open space, said Earl Eutsler, the
associate director of the District
Department of Transportation’s
Urban forestry Division.
“Schools are crucial to our goal
of reaching 40 percent,” he said.
And those spaces are often ne-
glected, said Karen Dresden, head
of school at Capital City.
“folks who design schools de-
sign the interior spaces. There’s
often not as much intentionality
with the exterior space,” s he said.
“That’s a missed opportunity in
garden from B1
Students’ minds blossom outside of the classroom
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Third-graders Ona, left, and abigail taste some fresh cherry tomatoes in the garden at Capital City
Public Charter. The tomatoes would later be sold by 10th- and 11th-graders at a weekly garden market.BY MARTIN WEILIn an apparent expression of
the idea that it is impossible to do
too much for Washington’s de-
parting young giant panda, the
National Zoo has asked for sug-
gestions for an appropriate mix
tape.
“If you were a giant panda
taking a 16-hour flight to China,
what would you want on your
playlist?” the zoo asked on Twit-
ter.
of course the animal’s name,
Bei Bei, pronounced “BAY BAY,”
seems so close to those words of
farewell, “bye-bye,” as well as theexclamation “BAY-BEE,” as to
elicit many poignant suggestions
for the traveler.
Under international agree-
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Tuesday. I t is part of a cooperative
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