Our Mission

The School Garden Network grows 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.

School 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 across five partner schools through garden-based learning
Provided 187 hours of mentorship and technical assistance, including garden improvements and drip irrigation repairs
Distributed 1,200 plants, 1,310 seed packets, 80 yards of compost, and 60 half wine barrels to 73 schools through SGN Grow Kits
Delivered 186 Harvest of the Month lessons featuring 12 seasonal crops
Purchased 3,010 pounds of Harvest of the Month produce from 47 local farmers
Hosted two teacher trainings focused on soil health, composting, and Cooking from the Garden

Provided 141 hours of mentorship and technical assistance to 18 schools
Enrolled five new schools, expanding access to schoolyard habitat programs for 2,544 students
Installed more than 530 native plants in new and existing habitat gardens
Planted locally grown and climate-adapted milkweed to support vulnerable monarch butterfly populations
Hosted a teacher training on Botanical Arts in School Gardens

Engaged 105 campers in hands-on outdoor learning experiences
Provided 39 scholarships to increase access for families
Fostered connections to nature, food systems, and healthy eating through garden-based education
Offered activities including gardening, food preparation, nature journaling, natural dyeing, solar cooking, cob bench building, bird feeder construction, watercolor painting, herbal medicine making, and nature exploration