become a SCHOOL GARDEN NETWORK PARTNER SCHOOLS:
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SGN School Partner Program is FREE! We invite all School Garden to participate and become part of the larger School Garden Network. SGN Partner Program affords your school a host of benefits including:
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**NEW** SGN is hard at work creating a platform to showcase the work, beauty, and importance of school gardens. How? By creating the first Sonoma County School Garden Map!
Please register your school OR re-register to make sure our information is accurate.
Interested in our March 2022 GROW KIT offering? Please Register or Update your profile to receive the GROW KIT Application. Thank you!
Please register your school OR re-register to make sure our information is accurate.
Interested in our March 2022 GROW KIT offering? Please Register or Update your profile to receive the GROW KIT Application. Thank you!
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Adele Harrison Middle School, Sonoma
Alexander Valley, Healdsburg Analy High School, Sebastopol Anova High School, Sebastopol Apple Blossom Elementary, Sebastopol Brooks Elementary School, Windsor, CA Bellevue Elementary School, Santa Rosa Bodega Bay School, Bodega Bay Boys and Girls Club, Windsor Bridge Haven School, Cotati Brook Haven School, Cotati Brook Haven School, Sebastopol Brook Hill Elementary School, Santa Rosa Brush Creek Montessori, Santa Rosa Cali Calmecac Language Academy, Windsor Casa Grande High School, Petaluma College Oaks Montessori School, Santa Rosa Credo High School, Rohnert Park Crossroads Community Day School, Petaluma
Cypress School, Petaluma Douglas Whited, Santa Rosa Dunbar Elementary, Glen Ellen Dunham Elementary School, Petaluma Eden Village, Healdsburg El Molino High School, Forestville El Verano Community School, Sonoma Elsie Allen High School, Santa Rosa 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 La Tercera Elementary School Children's Garden, Petaluma Laguna High School, Sebastopol Lawrence Cook Middle School, Santa Rosa Lincoln Elementary, Santa Rosa Loma Vista Immersion Academy, Petaluma Luther Burbank Elementary, Santa Rosa Madrone Elementary, Santa Rosa Mark West Community School, Santa Rosa Mary Collins School at Cherry Valley, Petaluma McKinley Elementary Petaluma McNear Elementary School, Petaluma Meadow View Elementary, Santa Rosa Miwok Kids Care, Petaluma Mixed Greens Preschool, Santa Rosa Monte Rio Elementary School, Monte Rio Monte Vista Elementary, Santa Rosa Montgomery High School, Santa Rosa Northwest Prep Charter School at Piner Olivet, Santa Rosa Oak Grove School, Graton Old Adobe Elementary School, Petaluma Park Side Elementary School, Sebastopol Petaluma Junior High School, Petaluma Penngrove Elementary, Penngrove Prestwood Elementary, Sonoma Proctor Terrace, Santa Rosa Robert L Steven Elementary, Santa Rosa Roseland Creek Elementary, Santa Rosa Santa Rosa Charter School of the Arts, Santa Rosa Santa Rosa French American Charter School, Santa Rosa Sebastopol Charter, Sebastopol Sheppard Accelerated Elementary, Santa Rosa Spring Creek Elementary School, Santa Rosa St. Vincent High School, Petaluma Steele Lane Elementary, Santa Rosa Sunridge Charter School, Sebastopol Thomas Page Academy, Cotati Twin Hills Middle School, Santa Rosa University Elementary at La Fiesta, Rohnert Park Valley of the Moon Children's Community School, Santa Rosa Village Charter School, Santa Rosa Westside Elementary School, Healdsburg Willowside School Nursery, Santa Rosa Wilson School, Petaluma Windsor High School, Windsor Woodland Star Charter School, Sonoma Wright Charter School, Santa Rosa All school profiles will be coming soon! |
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2017/2018 Healthy Roots grant recipients
Parkside Elementary, Sebastapol CA: Saivya Birnbaum, Garden Coordinator
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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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Penngrove Elementary, Penngrove CA: Marianne Barrel, Garden Coordinator
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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 |
Robert L. Stevens Elementary, Santa Rosa CA: Krista Gasper, Garden Coordinator
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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. |
Valley Vista Elementary School, Petaluma CA: Heather Osbun, Garden & Nutrition Educator
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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. |