If you’re lucky enough to have a year round garden like Hamilton High School first week of school you’re still harvesting. The local food bank has been getting donations of tomatoes, squash, eggplant, basil, peppers, and okra. At West Hollywood Elementary School the garden is not open year-round so during the first week of school […]
Welcome back teachers and students. September in a school garden is one of our busiest times. We need to get started quickly to insure a harvest before the long winter break. For those without a school garden the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has written an extensive online manual, Setting up and […]
Creating a school garden requires various skills of which gardening is merely one. Authors Arden Bucklin-Sporer and Rachel Kathleen Pringle of the recently published, How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers, understand this well. These are the ten chapters covering such diverse topics as: design, budgeting, organizing, fundraising and […]
Los Angeles Unified School District is the second largest school district in the nation, and now they are working toward becoming the greenest.
This video was made by fourth grade students in Marca Babcock’s class at Parkview Elementary School, Bellingham,Washington. Over the summer they harvest food for their local food bank.
Gardens evolve. All gardens, school or otherwise, season to season, year to year, they grow, they change, and with the proper care, they prosper. The “Learning Garden” at Venice High School has been evolving and prospering for more than 15 years. Back in 1995 horticulture/landscape teacher Diane Pollock “inherited” a weed-ridden one acre property that […]
Nora Dvosin and Nancy Giffin began the Westminster Elementary School Garden (WE Garden) in Venice, CA in 2004/05. Amid a sea of asphalt they have doggedly carved themselves a thriving oasis. The WE garden has grown over the years tripling its original size and now includes a new kindergarten area complete with flowering pear trees […]