Our Mission

The mission of School Garden Network is to grow healthy students, families, schools, and communities through garden-based education. We serve a network of over 160 schools with 52,000 students, helping to create and maintain immersive garden spaces on school campuses. These gardens break down barriers to fresh food access and inspire healthy food habits, enhance habitat for wildlife, teach ecological literacy and stewardship, and provide a space for students to feel a sense of empowerment, connection, safety, and joy.

Engaged 1,590 students at five grantee schools
187 hours of mentorship and technical assistance, including garden improvements and drip irrigation repair
Grow Kits distributed 1,200 plants + 1,310 seed packets + 80 yards of compost + 60 half wine barrels to 73 schools
186 Harvest of the Month (HOTM) lessons shared with students, featuring 12 crops
3,010 lbs of HOTM produce purchased from 47 local farmers
Hosted two teacher trainings on Soil Health and Composting and Cooking from the Garden

141 hours of mentorship and technical assistance provided for 18 schools
Five new schools enrolled, supporting 2,544 students
530+ native plants installed in new and existing habitat gardens
Locally grown and adapted milkweed planted to support vulnerable monarch butterflies
Hosted a teacher training on Botanical Arts in School Gardens

105 campers engaged
39 scholarships provided
Focused on fostering connections with nature and knowledge around cooking and food systems
Activities included camp songs and games, gardening, food preparation, nature journaling, sun printing and natural tie dye, scavenger hunts, puzzle mind maps, solar energy cooking, cob bench building, bird feeder construction, water color painting, flower crown crafting, herbal medicine making, and nature exploration