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Grant Recipients
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Saivya Birnbaum is the Garden Coordinator at Park Side Elementary and Brook Haven Middle schools in Sebastopol, California. Her love and dedication to beauty, nutritious food and teaching children are showcased in the garden programs she leads. She has helped expand the garden program to include garden based art, nutrition and cooking lessons, apothecary and herbal studies and a comprehensive school wide composting and recycling program. She teaches the students that practicing mindfulness is a key element in gardening and life.
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A former 4-Her who won ribbons at the fair for her produce, Marianne still loves to grow food to eat. In addition to gardening, she raises Spring lambs, turkeys for Thanksgiving, and freezer pigs. Marianne belongs to the Sonoma County Beekeepers Association.
For 20 years, she’d been using the school vegetable garden beds at Penngrove School to garden with her 3rd through 6th grade classes, and is now on a leave of absence from classroom teaching. In the 2016/2017 school year she was able to focus on the development of a school wide Garden and Environmental Education Program. In order to sustain that, Marianne is taking a second year’s leave and will add a nutrition education component to the program. The School Garden Network grant will go a long way toward realizing that goal. Follow on Twitter to see what the Ss are up to this year! Marianne Barrell @msbarrell #pennpannthers |
Krista got her start as a gardener during childhood visits to her grandparents’ Kansas home, where she helped her grandfather harvest and preserve home grown tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, and corn. After receiving a packet of seeds in fourth grade, she tried her hand at creating her own garden, enthusiastically cutting down a patch of grass on her family’s land, and spreading the seeds, which much to her chagrin, failed to grow.
Krista’s skills as a gardener have improved since then. She now knows that good gardening starts with building fertile soil and providing plants with the care and attention they need. Good gardening is a mindset. It takes patience and persistence, a willingness to try and to fail, and hopefully, to learn and succeed. Krista works to inspire the next generation of gardeners and nature enthusiasts. She brings her garden skills and mindset to her teaching - building fertile ground for students to know and love the natural world, providing care and attention in developing meaningful garden programs, and practicing patience and persistence as she ever evolves her methods for inspiring learning. Krista is currently the Garden Coordinator for two schools in west Santa Rosa, Wright Charter School and Robert L. Stevens Elementary. She has spent over 15 years working with youth in outdoor settings, as an Environmental Educator with LandPaths, Westminster Woods Science Camp, the Marin Conservation Corps, Team Oakland, and others. She holds an MA in Ecological Agriculture and a BA in History. She has owned and run her own vegetable farm, worked as a cook in a farm-to-table kitchen, and worked as a team building facilitator. |
Heather Osbun was introduced to healthy eating and good nutrition as a child. After a health scare in 2007 and the birth of her daughter in 2009, Heather became acutely aware of how important nutrition and healthy eating was for her body, mind and spirit. In 2015, Heather graduated at the top of her class from Santa Rosa Junior College and became a Registered Dietetic Technician. During her time at SRJC, Heather discovered that she enjoyed the preventative aspect of nutrition and wanted to teach children and families how to enjoy healthy foods. Heather believes that healthy eating can be exciting and fun. She is very passionate about sourcing food locally, seasonally and organically to help minimize the ecological footprint in Sonoma County. She has now combined her love for children and healthy eating to work as a Garden/Nutrition Educator at Valley Vista Elementary School in Petaluma.
In her free time, Heather enjoys cooking, hiking, singing and coaching her daughter’s soccer team. |
ALEXANDER VALLEY, HEALDSBURG
Garden Description: Our garden is very new. We have eight raised beds. All are full of soil and have drip irrigation. The original four had tomato and pepper starts and yielded quite a bit of fruit. It has been used in classrooms and at two garden events (for cooking and tasting). Garden Activities: The AVS Science Garden inhabits a generous plot of land and includes a tool shed, greenhouse, 8 large raised garden beds and a lovely ornamental/herbal garden. It also is home to several fruit trees, cactus and grape vines. Each class participates in the garden on a weekly basis and contributes in all aspects of maintaining the garden. Year Garden Was Started: 1990 Location: 8511 Hwy 128 Healdsburg Garden Coordinator: Anne Loarie Email Address: aloarie@]alexandervalleyusd.org Last updated on 1/2/15 ANALY HIGH SCHOOL, SEBASTOPOL
Garden Description: A rectangular area of 40 feet by 140 feet adjacent to one of the school buildings; 12 vegetable boxes, about 30 square feet each; an apple tree espalier of 4 varieties of apples; several in ground beds for additional vegetables; 6 citrus trees; 4 pear trees; fence line of grape vines; miscellaneous roses; 4 hazel nut trees; hot compost piles; 3 worm bin; cob benches; fountains Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Composting bin, Provide garden produce for cafeteria, Cooking or taste testing in the garden or classroom, Fruit trees, Vermicomposting Year Garden Was Started: 2007 Location: 1683 Burbank Ave., Santa Rosa Garden Coordinator: David Casey Last updated on 1/2/15 ANOVA CENTER FOR EDUCATION (ACE SCHOOL): SANTA ROSA
APPLE BLOSSOM ELEMENTARY: SEBASTOPOL
The garden serves as an outdoor experiential classroom where students participate in growing their own food using sustainable practices that foster connection to the land. The SGN Garden-Based Education grant (2009-2010) allowed the school to hire a Garden Education Coordinator to lead garden activities, organize parent volunteers and plan garden-based science with environmental education staff. Now all students can participate on a weekly basis in the garden. Garden lessons in each grade integrate exploration of plants, insects, riparian ecosystems and soil science. Fourth grade teachers started a native plant garden that includes ornamental and edible plants to supplement units on California history and geography. The Environmental Science Education series, developed & funded by the Bay Institute STRAW (Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed) program and the Twin Hills Apple Blossom Educational Foundation, meets state standards through garden-based laboratory science experiences. The PTA Green Team organizes volunteer days and raises funds. The PTA Wellness Committee plans to help integrate garden produce into the school lunch program as the production of the garden increases. With help from the non-profit Compost Club, the lunch waste compost program has cut garbage pick-up in half. Fifth graders have compost duty and create five-pound bags of compost to sell for fundraising. Orchard View High School students help construct worm bins, manage compost and teach lessons to elementary students. Plan to expand the garden include up to a dozen 4 x 10 planter boxes and in-ground beds, fruit trees, berry bushes and an herb garden. CASA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL, PETALUMA
COLLEGE OAKS MONTESSORI SCHOOL, SANTA ROSA
CREDO HIGH SCHOOL: ROHNERT PARK
Garden Description: We call our school garden an Urban Farm. We have a Production Garden where we grow food for the Wed. school lunches, and in the past held Farm markets. The Peace Garden where we also grow veggies…but the focus in this garden is flowers for the school. We have a Herb garden where we are growing herbs for our Herbal Studies, a pond/teepee area we are developing now, as well as garden boxes throughout the area and vertical gardening where we grow cut lettuce in gutters along the fence ways. Our worm box takes the food from the school lunches as well as building compost piles to gig back to our gardens. This year we have been adding art to our garden with handmade stepping stones and the asphalt has been paint with some beautiful lotus flowers with bees flying from one to the other. More in the planning this year. Every High School student at Credo High takes farming…beginning with Food Literacy (F), Herbal/food studies (S), Permaculture/Biodynamic studies (J), and Art as Seniors. Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Wildlife/pollinator habitat, Composting bin, Composting cafeteria waste, Provide garden produce for cafeteria, Cooking or taste testing in the garden or classroom, Nature study, Fruit trees, Seed saving, Vermicomposting Year Garden Was Started: 2011 Location: 1290 South West Blvd, Rohnert Park Garden Coordinator: Kelley Mcneal, kelley.mcneal[at]credohigh.org SGN Grant History: Received training scholarship in 2014. Last updated on 1/2/15 DOUGLAS WHITED: SANTA ROSA
Garden Description: Whited has an upper garden area which the Science Facilitator and many upper grade teachers utilize for science class. Whited also has a lower garden where spring and fall veggies and flowers are planted, the 6th graders are very hands on as they earn their community service hours in the garden as a prerequisite to complete the 6th grade. Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Composting bin, Nature study, Seed saving, butterfly garden Year Garden Was Started: 2012 Location: 4995 Sonoma Highway, Santa Rosa Garden Coordinator: Deanna Oliavrez, ilovemyryder[at]yahoo.com Last updated on 2/2/15 DUNBAR ELEMENTARY: GLEN ELLEN
The school and community garden sits on almost one-third of an acre on an oak-studded campus. The site boasts 12 irrigated raised beds, a Three Sisters garden, butterfly garden, herb garden, memorial garden, native plants and a small orchard. The outdoor classroom includes an arbor, garden shed, greenhouse, benches and a shade structure built by parent and community volunteers, such as Sonoma Valley Community Action Network. Supplies and professional development have been funded by Friends of Dunbar School Parent Teacher Organization (FODSPTO), Sonoma Valley Education Foundation, Ruth Riddell Foundation, and local businesses. The SGN Garden-Based Education grant (2006-2009) enabled garden classes to be offered weekly to all K-5 students. The garden curriculum touches on a variety of subjects from composting to testing the efficacy of natural pesticides to studying the anatomy of insects and worms. Lessons are tied to state educational standards and augment classroom studies in science (photosynthesis, plant anatomy, geology, weather), language arts (vocabulary, journaling), math (mapping, measurement), social science (agricultural history) and art. In addition, team building and life skills, such as responsibility and common sense, are encouraged through hands-on environmental stewardship. Nutrition is taught through cooking lessons using garden produce, such as making pesto or cucumber salad. A goal is to bring fresh foods from the garden into the cafeteria and to build a garden kitchen. Students also put on an annual garden party and Farmer’s Market, created art in the garden and contributed to community science in the annual Great Backyard Bird Count. Bloomin’ News, a garden newsletter, is published and distributed periodically. FLOWERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: sonoma
Flowery Elementary sits in Fetters Hot Springs, just north of the town of Sonoma. They are a dual immersion elementary school spanning grades K-5. In kindergarten and 1st grades, 90% of instructional time is in Spanish with an emphasis on Spanish literacy. As students progress through the grades, English language instruction increases. By 4th grade, instructional time is nearly evenly divided between Spanish and English. Flowery used their Cooking from the Garden grant 2011-2012 to promote healthy foods and provide students the opportunity to sample a wide range of foods that are healthy and organically grown. The grant allowed them to purchase supplies to stock the garden kitchen. Every student is now able to participate in cooking activities. Students also tend the garden on a year round basis and harvest the vegetables. The Garden Coordinator works with each class twice a month for a one-hour session. Each teacher recruits one or two garden volunteers to assist during the scheduled visit. The teachers participate in the classes also and plan their curriculum according to what the Garden Coordinator is doing in the kitchen that month. The Parent Teacher Organization has made the garden program the main priority for fundraising. FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, FORESTVILLE
GUERNEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: GUERNEVILLE
Garden Description: Grant School’s oldest landscaped areas are rock bordered beds including trees, ornamentals and natives. Most classrooms have a framed bed adjacent to the room. The 3 large framed beds near the multi have been used as a demonstration and productive area by the Garden Club for 10 years. There is a full shed and small compost bin there. We have an Outdoor Learning Garden, which is in a corner of campus and seats an entire class, has raised beds, compost system, rain catchment and drip irrigation and its own shed. At the end of one wing there is another outdoor classroom area bordered by a small sensory garden. Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Wildlife/pollinator habitat, Composting bin, Cooking or taste testing in the garden or classroom, Nature study, Vermicomposting Year Garden Was Started: unknown Location: 200 Grant Ave, Petaluma Garden Coordinator: Julia Megna Last updated on 1/12/15 HARMONY ELEMENTARY / SALMON CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL: OCCIDENTAL
Salmon Creek has become a true model for transitioning their school lunch into healthy fresh meals with less processed foods. Last year, with the help of an SGN mentor, they expanded their garden space and are growing more food for their salad bar and school lunch program. They connected with a local farm and are supplementing their salad bar with locally grown vegetables. Their goal is to keep up with production from the garden and increase student participation in school lunches and salad bars. A fruit orchard, habitat and fairy gardens, strawberry patches, medicinal and culinary herbs, tea garden, gourd tunnels and production beds make up this one-acre garden. With the help of classroom teachers, assistants and volunteers, K-5 students study science and nutrition in the garden once per week during fall and spring. From the straw bale kitchen, the garden education coordinator shows young children how to “eat from the rainbow”, using color to associate certain foods with healthy body parts. Older students consider what food is in season and why it’s important to support family farmers. Students make sprout wraps, garden sushi, fava bean and kale stir-fry and strawberry smoothies. They get excited about growing their own fruits and vegetables, experiencing the full cycle of life from planting to harvest, and eating the delicious foods they’ve grown. The SGN Salad Bar grant (2009-2011) has enabled the school to offer a salad bar that includes daily organic baked potatoes and organic greens from the school’s production beds. The Wellness Committee has been actively engaged in transforming the school lunch program to include more local, seasonal, organic produce. Weekly garden-based meals called “Homegrown Lunches” are also offered in the new cafeteria. Skills-based nutrition education called “Nourishing Choices” is integrated in K-8. Newsletters about the garden program, cooking/nutrition news and recipes inform parents and volunteers. HEALDSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: HEALDSBURG
Garden Description: The Healdsburg program offers hands-on garden and nutrition education for all study nts, pre-kindergarten through second grade. Twelve raised beds (vegetables and perennials), fruit trees, compost bins, worm boxes, a greenhouse, a chicken pen, herb and fairy gardens, an outdoor kitchen, an outdoor classroom, pollinator habitat, and a willow hut complete this garden. In addition to a garden education coordinator, the school hired a nutrition and kitchen garden. Nutrition and science lessons from University of California’s TWIGS curriculum are tied into food preparation and cooking activities. Our garden includes a large vegetable and herb garden, perennial beds, greenhouse for seedlings, willow hut, outdoor kitchen, worm bins, henhouse, outdoor classroom and kitchen area, pollinator habitat and fruit plantings. Garden Activities: Growing fruits and vegetables, tending pollinator habitat, composting cafeteria waste, taste testing, seed saving, tending our worm bins, building fairy houses and making mud pies. Year Garden Was Started: 2000 Location: 400 1st St., Healdsburg Garden Coordinator: Vikki DuRee, vduree[at]husd.com SGN Grant History: Funds from the SGN Cooking From the Garden grant (2009-2010) supplemented garden food through local farmers such as Carrot Top Farm and Love Farms, and were used to purchase additional cooking supplies. Each month one aspect of the garden is highlighted in the curriculum and cooking coincides with garden themes. During seed gathering time, students make trail mix or roast pumpkin seeds. While studying root vegetables, they prepare dishes using carrots or beets. With help from other gardens, they produce enough assorted vegetables to prepare a soup pot regularly. Every kindergarten class makes sorbets and lemonade with strawberries, salsa and soup with tomatoes or butternut squash. Last updated on 1/2/15 JOHN B. RIEBLI ELEMENTARY: SANTA ROSA
Garden Description: 12 raised bed tasting garden following an all subjects CA standards curriculum. Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Wildlife/pollinator habitat, Composting bin, Cooking or taste testing in the garden or classroom, Nature study, Seed saving, Vermicomposting, Science experiments, creative & visual arts Year Garden Was Started: 2012 Location: 315 Mark West Springs Rd., Santa Rosa Garden Coordinator: Tina Thomas Last updated on 1/2/15 KIDS STREET LEARNING CENTER: SANTA ROSA
Garden Description: Kid Street has 14 raised beds . Each are filled with vegetables; sensory bed; herb bed. They also have a plum tree and an apple tree. Kids Street is a school whose students are “at risk.” Many live in homeless shelters, children’s shelters, or with foster parents. The majority have parents who are recovering drug addicts and have been or are incarcerated. Working with the earth and being part of life and growth has unmatched therapeutic value. This school garden provides education on healthy eating, and help students heal wounds and provide a sense of calmness. Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Wildlife/pollinator habitat, Provide garden produce for cafeteria, Nature study, Fruit trees, Seed saving Year Garden Was Started: ~2006; restored in 2014 Location: 709 Davis Street, Santa Rosa Garden Coordinator: Teri Read SGN Grant History: Kids Street in Santa Rosa used their 2011-2012 Garden Based Education grant to expand their instructional garden to be a fully functional, living classroom where students can see life growing and learn how it is sustained. The students learned about the water cycle and plant biology and see it in action. The outdoor classroom created a hands-on learning experience that the students apply to their everyday lives. Last updated on 1/2/15 LA TERCERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN’S GARDEN: PETALUMA
La Tercera Elementary School received a SGN Garden-Based Education grant (2007-2010). Their Children’s Garden is comprised of three main areas: the K-garden, the Courtyard containers and the Peace garden. They also have a greenhouse. The K-garden is made up of twelve raised beds and a less formal perimeter garden bed. The children use the greenhouse during the school year to sow vegetable and flower seeds for the gardens and plant sales. More garden spaces are being developed all the time with the involvement of children, faculty and parents volunteers. The garden buddy program pairs older children with the younger children to work in the gardens. MADRONE ELEMENTARY: SANTA ROSA
Garden Description: We have 12 raised beds in the center of our school. They are on a drip system making care and maintenance easy. Classes this year have taken on a bed and with the help of a garden docent parent, are able to visit the garden monthly to monitor the growth of their crops and to do other hands on activities in the garden. Lessons are based on content standards for each grade level and lessons are done during our Science Lab time. Garden Activities: Grow vegetables Year Garden Was Started: 2010 Location: 4550 Rinconada Drive, Santa Rosa Garden Coordinator: Amanda Richards, arichards[at]rvusd.org Last updated on 1/2/15 MARY COLLINS SCHOOL AT CHERRY VALLEY: PETALUMA
Mary Collins is a K-8 public charter school. They have had a garden for the past 12 years. Their vision for cooking with students is for students to see the process through from planting to weeding to harvesting, cleaning, cooking, and eating. Kids roam the garden at recess for a little green snack and devour with pride the foods they helped prepare. At Mary Collins, the SGN Cooking from the Garden grant (2010-2011), has helped students become more involved in the garden through cooking in class centers, garden rotations, upper grade electives, and the weekly salad bar rotation. MEADOW VIEW ELEMENTARY: SANTA ROSA
Garden Description: We have a number of raised beds in our garden, constructed using wood or concrete. Last year, we grew pumpkins, tomatoes, squash, watermelons, corn, beans, asian pears and a variety of peppers. Our garden is primarily managed by the CalServes/AmeriCorps after-school program. Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Cooking or taste testing in the garden or classroom, Fruit trees Year Garden Was Started: unknown Location: 2655 Dutton Meadow, Santa Rosa Garden Coordinator: NightSnow Vogt Last updated on 1/5/15 MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY: PETALUMA
This site includes both a school and community garden, with over 20 raised beds divided between classroom and family plots. In addition, the school program encourages family participation through garden classes, a weekly lunchtime garden club, after school garden activities (through Boys & Girls Club) and as summertime stewards. Petaluma Bounty was a founding partner in planning and building the garden. Over 50 volunteers helped prepare the soil and build raised beds on the first workday! Community members donated materials for the garden shed and tools. The Bounty Farm, an urban educational farm located within walking distance, also furthers students’ exploration and studies through activities. These activities include beekeeping, small farm animals, a flower growing business, planting, harvesting and all aspects of daily farm life. With almost 90% of the students qualifying for free or reduced lunches, families are now able to provide healthy food on a regular basis, many of them growing both winter and summer crops. By making salads and cooking from the garden, children are learning to eat vegetables they have grown with their parents and classmates. The SGN Garden-Based Education grant (2009-2010) has allowed the Garden Education Coordinator to work more closely with teachers to develop year-round lesson plans that support classroom learning, and act as a liaison with community organizations to enhance the program. Weekly gardening for each class integrates state educational standards with FOSS and Life Lab designed lessons on plant growth, water, insects and life cycles – concepts that Principal Sherry Devine says “cannot be duplicated with a textbook.” MCNEAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: PETALUMA
The Life Sciences Garden is a living, growing classroom helping to educate children about the natural world. The edible garden includes native plants, habitat gardens, and salad production beds. There are 12 raised beds dedicated to vegetables, 16 barrels, a 20-person bamboo bean tipi and various trellises for herbs and other companion plants. Included are three different kinds of table grapes (all seedless, of course), a kiwi, five barrels of raspberries, three boxes of strawberries, two beautiful blueberry shrubs and three Meyer lemon trees. With the SGN Garden-Based Education grant, students have learned about soil conservation, crop rotation, composting and nutrition in a hands-on environment. The garden education coordinator integrates the school curriculum (including FOSS life sciences) into garden lessons. The goal is for K-6 students to spend time in the garden each week, participating in a variety of center-based activities appropriate to each grade level. After school enrichment includes cooking classes and composting/recycling/repurposing from the garden. An Eagle Scout troop, SRJC horticulture department, an SSU intern, a dedicated garden committee and other volunteers have all contributed to the picnic tables, chalkboard, display case and lessons in the garden classroom. With additional funding from Petaluma Education Foundation, the garden program plans to develop learning prompts to include signage for self-guided lessons with information, questions and tools like measuring tape and magnifying lenses. MONTE VISTA ELEMENTARY: ROHNERT PARK
Garden Description: The garden has been a part of the school for most of its history. It is made up of 22 raised beds. There is a butterfly/pollinator bed, sensory bed, vegetable beds, a few fruit trees, and flower beds. There are two worm bins that are fed from garden compost and snack leftovers. There is a small group seating area for instruction. New irrigation was installed this year and we are in the process of replacing beds that are in disrepair this year. Teachers have access to teaching materials and resources that were gathered by our Garden Coordinator Kitty Ritz. A committee keeps the garden communication board up to date and communicates with the staff. Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Wildlife/pollinator habitat, Composting bin, Cooking or taste testing in the garden or classroom, Nature study, Fruit trees, Seed saving, Vermicomposting Year Garden Was Started: ~1994 Location: 1400 Magnolia Avenue, Rohnert Park Garden Coordinator: Vivian Winfree, vivian_winfree[at]crpusd.org Last updated on 1/2/15 MONTE RIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: MONTE RIO
Garden Description: We have several raised beds, a greenhouse, and a shed all set within our Environmental Education Site. We have two instructional areas, a pond, and lots of redwoods! Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Wildlife/pollinator habitat, Composting bin, Composting cafeteria waste, Provide garden produce for cafeteria, Cooking or taste testing in the garden or classroom, Nature study, Seed saving Year Garden Was Started: 1991 Location: 20700 Foothill Dr., Monte Rio Garden Coordinator: Sarah Amador, Mbraia[@]roselandsd.org SGN Grant History: Recipient of 2014-2015 Salad Bar Grant award. Their garden and nutrition program teaches nutrition through cooking, tasting, and gardening, as well as classroom lessons. Their short-term goal is for a portion of the fresh produce served in the school lunch program to be harvested from the school garden. They also plan to have the Harvest of the Month menu included on the cafeteria menu. A longer term goal is to compost all school kitchen food waste in the school garden. Last updated on 1/2/15 NORTHWEST PREP CHARTER SCHOOL AT PINER OLIVET: SANTA ROSA
Northwest Prep is a public charter middle and high school that offers Ag/Science and Sustainability as an elective for all students as part of the Agricultural Science and Health Careers programs. Approximately twenty students meet each day for almost two hours. Students learn about all aspects of agricultural science and food systems including: garden development, nutrition education, and cooking from the garden. In addition to some fruit trees, students grow a variety of herbs, flowers and vegetables in the hoop house and raised beds, which they eat, give away to students/families and sell at their farmers market. The SGN Cooking From the Garden grant (2008-2009) was used to purchase cooking equipment as well as supplemental produce through the CSA at Laguna Farm. Another grant from Slow Foods and OXO supplied additional cooking equipment and garden tools. Previously, equipment was borrowed from staff, or meals were cooked on a camp stove in the garden or classroom. Now, with the use of Piner Olivet School’s industrial kitchen, the program is fully functioning – even with canning capabilities. Students cook meals for the class or for the entire school (on salad day, pasta day or salsa day). This program has fulfilled its vision for students to create healthy habits as they prepare meals for students, staff and the community with fresh, local food. Northwest Prep has also received a Garden-Based Education grant to support their school garden for 2011-2012. OAK GROVE SCHOOL: GRATON
Grades K-5 garden once per week in the outdoor classroom. Students plant seeds, tend plants and harvest food while learning the origins of particular crops, their historical uses and nutritional values. In addition to a dozen raised beds and containers in the main garden, there is a raised garden bed outside each of the 12 classrooms. Subjects such as math, science and social studies are incorporated into the garden experience. Children also learn the lessons of good nutrition and health through direct experience between the crops they grow and the food they eat. With the SGN Salad Bar grant (2007-2009), a Salad Bar Coordinator was hired to work closely with the Garden Coordinator in order to bring more food from the garden to the table. Salad greens, fava beans, broccoli, corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, onions, leeks, potatoes, cabbage and carrots are harvested from the school garden. The salad bar coordinator organizes student and parent volunteers to help prepare and serve hearty soups and salads that supplement school lunches. The coordinator also communicates with local farmers who deliver supplemental produce to the school and, on occasion, help out in the kitchen. With one classroom per week involved hands-on in the kitchen, it is estimated that 80-100% of the salad bar is consumed by students! Minestrone soup, pesto pasta and hard-boiled eggs with salad are a few favorites. The school’s exemplary compost and recycling program uses biodegradable plates, bowls and utensils purchased with the grant. This successful program is now self sufficient through fundraising by the school, including an annual silent auction and plant sales from Willowside School. PARK SIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: SEBASTOPOL
Garden Description: We have a sweet garden with 12 raised garden beds, established fruit trees, and a berry garden. There is a covered meeting place and seating throughout the space. A small but bountiful garden. Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Wildlife/pollinator habitat, Composting bin, Cooking or taste testing in the garden or classroom, Fruit trees, Seed saving Year Garden Was Started: Restarted in 2014 Location: 7450 Bodega Ave. Sebastopol Garden Coordinator: Saivya Birnbaum [email protected] Most Significant Need for Garden: Funding for the garden coordinator position and a rain water harvesting system. Last updated on 12/28/17 PETALUMA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL: PETALUMA
ROSELAND CREEK ELEMENTARY: SANTA ROSA
Garden Description: Our garden is very new. We have eight raised beds. All are full of soil and have drip irrigation. The original four had tomato and pepper starters and yielded quite a bit of fruit. It has been used in classrooms and at two garden events (for cooking and tasting). Garden Activities: Cooking or taste testing in the garden or classroom Year Garden Was Started: 2010 Location: 1683 Burbank Ave., Santa Rosa Garden Coordinator: Amanda Richards, arichards[at]rvusd.org Last updated on 1/2/15 SHEPPARD ACCELERATED ELEMENTARY: SANTA ROSA
Sheppard broke ground on their garden in 2008, and have maintaining an evolving and successful garden ever since. They received a Cooking grant for 2011-2012, and their goal is for all classes to include a nutrition lesson with a component tied to the garden. Previous lessons included a fraction fruit salad with apples from their apple tree, donated in 2007, Jack and the Beanstalk bean tasting with beans from the garden, and Beautiful Butterfly snacks with celery grown in the garden. SPRING CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: SANTA ROSA
Garden Description: Spring Creek School has a wonderful garden that is used to teach healthy eating habits, gardening, and science. The garden was installed about 15 years ago and has been an important part of the school ever since. We have about 20 raised beds for flowers and vegetables, a butterfly garden, and willow dome, which is a popular reading spot for classes. Every High School student at Credo High takes farming…beginning with Food Literacy (F), Herbal/food studies (S), Permaculture/Biodynamic studies (J), and Art as Seniors. Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Wildlife/pollinator habitat, Cooking or taste testing in the garden or classroom, Nature study, Fruit trees, Seed saving Year Garden Was Started: ~2000 Location: 4675 Mayette Avenue, Santa Rosa Garden Coordinator: Amy McIntosh, springcreekschoolgarden[at]gmail.com SGN Grant History: Received training scholarship in 2014. Last updated on 1/12/15 STEELE LANE ELEMENTARY: santa rosa
With the fabulous support from our community, Vicki’s Garden at Steele Lane Elementary School has been able to upgrade the infrastructure and teaching program this past year. While our program has improved student contact time and curriculum, we are also very excited about the help we have received from Sunrise Rotary. While we have had support from many organizations, our support form Sunrise has been pivotal. We wish to thank them for our new seven planting beds, four new picnic tables, new shade structure and a replaced shed. These projects could not have happened without them. In addition, all of these community organizations helped make these projects (and more) happen: Sunrise Rotary; School Garden Network of Sonoma County; Slow Food Russian River; Whole Kids Foundation; Freidman’s Home Improvement Center; Home Depot; Benjamin Moore Paints; California Association of Family Farmers; The National Heirloom Exposition; Steele Lane Enrichment Foundation; and the Steele Lane Elementary School staff and administration! SUNRIDGE CHARTER SCHOOL, SEBASTOPOL
THOMAS PAGE ACADEMY: COTATI
Garden Description: Our garden, which we call our Outdoor Learning Environment, or OLÈ, is a bounty of food for both humans and other animals. Students have loved coming out to work with volunteers to create our garden. With lots and lots of native plants, our hedgerow, pollinator beds, and meadow are attracting many birds, insects, and reptiles. Our many veggie boxes gave us lots of delicious strawberries and tomatoes this past summer, and yielded many of our students’ first tastes of kale, as well as heritage beans, and pumpkins, etc. We are excited to grow our program in the years to come and welcome support from the community! Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Wildlife/pollinator habitat, Cooking or taste testing in the garden or classroom, Nature study, Seed saving, bird watching Year Garden Was Started: 2013 Location: 1075 Madrone Ave., Cotati, CA 94931 Garden Coordinator: Suki Winship, suki_winship[at]crpsud.org SGN Grant History: Thomas Page Academy received a Water-Wise School Garden Mini Grant in 2014. Last updated on 2/2/15 VALLEY OF THE MOON CHILDREN’S COMMUNITY SCHOOL: SANTA ROSA
Valley of the Moon Children’s Home addresses the needs of Sonoma County’s abused, abandoned and neglected children. Housing units, a full commercial kitchen and a dining area were constructed in 2005 for the Children’s Home for foster youth. The Home serves over 400 children annually. Near the garden’s front entrance a habitat pond welcomes visitors. The garden, including three large gopher-proof planters, now has a typical summer bounty of raspberries, lemon cucumbers, bell peppers, onions, strawberries, beans, eggplant, kale, squash, pumpkins, melons, corn and hundreds of tomatoes! A pizza garden includes basil, garlic and Sungold tomatoes. Children’s garden groups meet once per week for two hours to work, learn and eat in the garden. Their favorite part is the harvest, but they are involved in every aspect of gardening — from planting to weeding and watering. A special group of volunteers, calling themselves the “Cha Chas”, meet with students once a month in the school and community garden program to incorporate nutrition information and share recipes. These women donate all the food, prepare meals from scratch with the children and eat together with them as a family. The SGN Cooking From the Garden grant (2008-2009) enabled the school to purchase additional cooking equipment and inspired them to expand the garden. The garden education coordinator and the chef at the Children’s Home now use produce from the garden in creative ways to prepare meals for the children. WEST SIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: HEALDSBURG
Check out their website here: Westside Elementary, Healdsburg Garden Description: The West Side School Garden is nestled along Felta Creek, with a mixture of riparian redwood habitat and garden beds. The garden includes a mixture of edibles, natives, herbs, flowers and fruit trees. A garden shed and two greenhouses support the garden. West Side is looking forward to the Native Plant Habitat Garden which will be implemented in 2017-18 thanks to a grant from US Fish and Wildlife. Visit the West Side website for photos of garden projects and activities: https://garden43.wixsite.com/westside Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Wildlife/pollinator habitat, Composting bin, Composting cafeteria waste, Cooking or taste testing in the garden or classroom, Nature study, Fruit trees, Seed saving, Vermicomposting Location: 1201 Felta Road Garden Coordinator: Stefanie Freele [email protected] Last updated 7/18/17 WILLOWSIDE SCHOOL NURSERY: SANTA ROSA
Willowside students are very fortunate to be able to work and learn about plant species, propagation and care in a real nursery. Every other week, students spend one period working with nursery coordinators Misty Fiddler and Jan Lochner. The program is supported by monthly weekend plant sales. WILSON SCHOOL: PETALUMA
Garden Description: We have 12 raised beds, and a hot house (that doesn’t have a sprinkler system inside). The beds are all hooked up to a watering system, and we are slowly redoing the gopher wire at the bottom of the beds. The children come out about once a month, for an hour, with a parent volunteer. The teachers are not much involved with the garden. Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Composting bin, Cooking or taste testing in the garden or classroom, Fruit trees, Seed saving Year Garden Was Started: 2000 Location: Bodega Ave, Petaluma Garden Coordinator: Deborah Evenich, dabenebi[at]comcast.net Last updated on 1/2/15 WOODLAND STAR CHARTER SCHOOL: SONOMA
Garden Description: Our school garden consists of a large vegetable and flower garden featuring in-ground beds as well as 17 raised beds. Our campus is designed with drought tolerant, mostly native plants that support wildlife and lots of natural play spaces for the student who range from kindergarden to 8th grade. Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Wildlife/pollinator habitat, Composting bin, Composting cafeteria waste, Cooking or taste testing in the garden or classroom, Nature study, Fruit trees, Seed saving, Vermicomposting Year Garden Was Started: 2003 Location: 17811 Arnold Drive, Sonoma Garden Coordinator: Stacey Tuel, [email protected] Garden Volunteer: Alane McCrea, [email protected] WRIGHT CHARTER SCHOOL: SANTA ROSA
Although relatively new to school gardens, Wright used their 2011-2012 Garden-Based Education grant for a garden coordinator to help design and implement lessons and activities that incorporate standards-based skills and concepts from all core subject areas. In just a short time they have been able to expand and improve the garden. The staff’s interest and support for the garden has increased and several teachers are working closely with the Garden Coordinator to integrate the garden into their lessons. Currently, 440 students participate in a garden activity on a weekly basis, and their grant will help expand that. A majority of classes have at least one-half hour of scheduled time per week and there are now volunteer opportunities for students to work in the garden during recess and after school. Wright received other grants to install a vermicomposting system and a greenhouse. St. Vincent high school, petaluma
Garden Description: The garden consists of a small fenced in space (to protect it from deer) with raised beds. Most of the garden contains seasonal vegetables which are shared with the garden workers, with the majority of the produce being donated to local food pantries. Garden Activities: Fruit trees Year Garden Was Started: 2007 Location: 849 Keokuk St., Petaluma Garden Coordinator: Anne Trott, atrott[at]svhs-pet.org Last updated on 1/2/15 Bellevue Elementary School: santa rosa
Boys and Girls Club: Windsor
Bridge haven school: cotati
Brook haven school: sebastopol
brook hill elementary school: SANta rosa
brush creek montessori: santa rosa
cali calmecac language academy: windsor
corona creek elementary: petaluma
crossroads community day school: petaluma
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el molino high school: forestville
el verano community school: sonoma
elsie allen high school: santa rosa
foothills elementary school: st. helena
gold ridge preschool: rOHNERT park
grace high: santa rosa
grant elementary: petaluma
greenacre school: sebastopol
guerneville elementary school: guerneville
hidden valley SATELLITE: santa rosa
hilliard comstock middle school: santa rosa
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journey high school: sebastopol
JX WILSON: SANTA ROSA
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laguna high school: sebastopol
lawrence cook middle school: santa rosa
lincoln elementary: santa rosa
luther burbank elementary school: santa rosa
mark west community preschool: santa rosa
mark west elementary school: santa rosa
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loma vista immersion academy: petaluma
mcdowell elementary school: petaluma
miwok kids care afterschool: petaluma
mixed greens preschool: Santa Rosa
montgomery high school: santa rosa
old adobe ELEMENTARY school: petaluma
penngrove elementary: penngrove
Garden Description: The main vegetable garden and orchard at Penngrove Elementary School are adjacent to the playing field, and are mostly composed of raised beds. There are various containers and beds of flowers, fruit and vegetables around the campus. Compost tumblers and worm bins are cared for by students and are "fed" by the cafeteria waste. The salad bar offers greens from the garden and the second annual spring plant sale will take place in May. Visit the GEE site by pasting the following into your browser. https://goo.gl/Qi4o9q Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Wildlife/pollinator habitat, Composting bin, Composting cafeteria waste, Provide garden produce for cafeteria, Cooking or taste testing in the garden or classroom, Nature study, Fruit trees, Seed saving, Vermicomposting, Art activities, writing, math Year Garden Was Started?: 1996 What is your most significant need for your garden?: A salary for a garden coordinator. Address: 365 Adobe Road Garden Coordinator: Mari Barrell [email protected] prestwood elementary: sonoma
proctor terrace: santa rosa
ROBERT L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
roseland collegiate prep
santa rosa charter school of the arts
santa rosa french american charter
twin hills middle school
university elementary at la fiesta
village charter school
windsor creek elementary school: windsor
windsor high school: windsor
adele harrison middle school: sonoma
cypress school: petaluma
sebastopol charter: sebastopol
loma vista immersion academy: petaluma
Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Nature study, Fruit trees, Seed saving Location: 207 Maria Dr, Petaluma Ca Garden Coordinator: Katie DelaVaughn bodega bay school: bodega bay
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ADELE HARRISON MIDDLE SCHOOL: SONOMA
ALEXANDER VALLEY, HEALDSBURG
Garden Description: Our garden is very new. We have eight raised beds. All are full of soil and have drip irrigation. The original four had tomato and pepper starts and yielded quite a bit of fruit. It has been used in classrooms and at two garden events (for cooking and tasting). Garden Activities: The AVS Science Garden inhabits a generous plot of land and includes a tool shed, greenhouse, 8 large raised garden beds and a lovely ornamental/herbal garden. It also is home to several fruit trees, cactus and grape vines. Each class participates in the garden on a weekly basis and contributes in all aspects of maintaining the garden. Year Garden Was Started: 1990 Location: 8511 Hwy 128 Healdsburg Garden Coordinator: Anne Loarie Email Address: aloarie@]alexandervalleyusd.org ANALY HIGH SCHOOL, SEBASTOPOL
Garden Description: A rectangular area of 40 feet by 140 feet adjacent to one of the school buildings; 12 vegetable boxes, about 30 square feet each; an apple tree espalier of 4 varieties of apples; several in ground beds for additional vegetables; 6 citrus trees; 4 pear trees; fence line of grape vines; miscellaneous roses; 4 hazel nut trees; hot compost piles; 3 worm bin; cob benches; fountains Garden Activities: Grow vegetables, Composting bin, Provide garden produce for cafeteria, Cooking or taste testing in the garden or classroom, Fruit trees, Vermicomposting Year Garden Was Started: 2007 Location: 1683 Burbank Ave., Santa Rosa Garden Coordinator: David Casey ANOVA CENTER FOR EDUCATION (ACE SCHOOL): SANTA ROSA
APPLE BLOSSOM ELEMENTARY: SEBASTOPOL
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BELLEVUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: SANTA ROSA
BODEGA BAY SCHOOL: BODEGA BAY
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: WINDSOR
BRIDGE HAVEN SCHOOL: COTATI
BROOK HAVEN SCHOOL: SEBASTOPOL
BROOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:
BRUSH CREEK MONTESSORI: SANTA ROSA
CALI CALMECAC LANGUAGE ACADEMY: WINDSOR
CASA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL, PETALUMA
COLLEGE OAKS MONTESSORI SCHOOL, SANTA ROSA
CORONA CREEK ELEMENTARY: PETALUMA
CREDO high school: rohnert park
Crossroads community day school: petaluma
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CYPRESS SCHOOL: PETALUMA
DOUGLAS WHITED: SANTA ROSA
DUNBAR ELEMENTARY: GLEN ELLEN
DUNHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: PETALUMA
EL MOLINO HIGH SCHOOL: FORESTVILLE
ELSIE ALLEN HIGH SCHOOL: SANTA ROSA
EL VERANO COMMUNITY SCHOOL: SONOMA
FLOWERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: SONOMA
FOOTHILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: ST. HELENA
FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, FORESTVILLE
GRACE HIGH: SANTA ROSA
GRANT ELEMENTARY: PETALUMA
GREENACRE SCHOOL: SEBASTOPOL
HARMONY ELEMENTARY / SALMON CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL: OCCIDENTAL
HEALDSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: HEALDSBURG
HIDDEN VALLEY SATELLITE: SANTA ROSA
HILLIARD COMSTOCK MIDDLE SCHOOL: SANTA ROSA
JOHN B. RIEBLI ELEMENTARY: SANTA ROSA
JOURNEY HIGH SCHOOL: SEBASTOPOL
JX WILSON: SANTA ROSA
KIDS STREET LEARNING CENTER: SANTA ROSA
LAGUNA HIGH SCHOOL: SEBASTOPOL
LA TERCERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN’S GARDEN: PETALUMA
LAWRENCE COOK MIDDLE SCHOOL: SANTA ROSA
LINCOLN ELEMENTARY: SANTA ROSA
LOMA VISTA IMMERSION ACADEMY: PETALUMA
LUTHER BURBANK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: SANTA ROSA
MADRONE ELEMENTARY: SANTA ROSA
MARK WEST COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL: SANTA ROSA
MARK WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: SANTA ROSA
MARY COLLINS SCHOOL AT CHERRY VALLEY: PETALUMA
MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY: PETALUMA
MCNEAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: PETALUMA
MEADOW VIEW ELEMENTARY: SANTA ROSA
MONTE RIO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: MONTE RIO
MONTE VISTA ELEMENTARY: ROHNERT PARK
MONTGOMERY HIGH SCHOOL: SANTA ROSA
MIWOK KIDS CARE AFTERSCHOOL: PETALUMA
MIXED GREENS PRESCHOOL: SANTA ROSA
NORTHWEST PREP CHARTER SCHOOL AT PINER OLIVET: SANTA ROSA
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OAK GROVE SCHOOL: GRATON
OLD ADOBE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: PETALUMA
PARK SIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: SEBASTOPOL
PENNGROVE ELEMENTARY: PENNGROVE
PETALUMA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL: PETALUMA
Garden Description: The Culinary Garden at PJHS is an oasis at the northern end of the campus, and exhibits food-to-table at its finest. Most of the produce used in the Culinary Arts and Independent Living classes is grown there. It is a garden used for teaching, as well as production. Garden Activities: They compost the waste from their classes, use grey water from their dish washing inside, cultivate seeds in their greenhouse, investigate culinary uses of herbs, and observe the wildlife that visits the garden on a daily basis! Year Garden Was Started: 2002 Location: 700 Bantam Way, Petaluma Garden Coordinator: Charlene Nugent, Cnugent[at]petk12.org Last updated on 1/2/15 PRESTWOOD ELEMENTARY: SONOMA
PROCTOR TERRACE: SANTA ROSA
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ROBERT L STEVENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ROSELAND COLLEGIATE PREP
ROSELAND CREEK ELEMENTARY: SANTA ROSA
SANTA ROSA CHARTER SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
SANTA ROSA FRENCH AMERICAN CHARTER
SEBASTOPOL CHARTER: SEBASTOPOL
SHEPPARD ACCELERATED ELEMENTARY: SANTA ROSA
SPRING CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: SANTA ROSA
STEELE LANE ELEMENTARY: SANTA ROSA
ST. VINCENT HIGH SCHOOL, PETALUMA
SUNRIDGE CHARTER SCHOOL, SEBASTOPOL
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THOMAS PAGE ACADEMY: COTATI
TWIN HILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY ELEMENTARY AT LA FIESTA
VALLEY OF THE MOON CHILDREN’S COMMUNITY SCHOOL: SANTA ROSA
VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL
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WEST SIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: HEALDSBURG
WILLOWSIDE SCHOOL NURSERY: SANTA ROSA
WILSON SCHOOL: PETALUMA
WINDSOR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: WINDSOR
WINDSOR HIGH SCHOOL: WINDSOR
WOODLAND STAR CHARTER SCHOOL: SONOMA
WRIGHT CHARTER SCHOOL: SANTA ROSA
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