Growing Together
A vibrant garden at the heart of every school.
We improve the health and sustainability of school communities by greening schoolyards, providing environmental and nutrition education, planting trees, & increasing fresh food access at 49 Title I public schools across four East Bay districts.
Named 2025 Partner of the Year by West Contra Costa Unified School District.
Our programs
Five symbiotic programs.
Our five programs are more than the sum of their parts. We replace blacktop with garden beds and orchards, where teachers bring students for hands-on environmental and nutrition lessons. Zooming out, our network green schoolyards become places not only for community gatherings, but for distributing farm fresh produce & free fruit trees. Some of that food is grown at our school farms, where students scratch cook produce they grew on campus into cafeteria lunches. Each program feeds the next, and together they shape how we build the movement at the state capitol.
Environmental Education
We design & lead environmental literacy & culinary programs at our school gardens & farms, focusing on experiential science & socioemotional learning across K-12 grade levels.
Greening Schoolyards
We collaborate with school communities to envision & create green open spaces on school campuses for students to learn about & steward the living world.
Fresh Food Access
We connect school communities with fresh, local food, bringing seasonal, organic produce from our network of school farms to cafeterias and families.
Planting Trees
We engage school communities in planting trees in their neighborhood, cultivating long-term stewardship and care through layered educational experiences.
Movement Building
We organize a state-wide coalition of school garden educators & organizations to collectively advocate for sustainable funding for school-based outdoor education.
Where we work
Where 11,590 students learn in the garden every week, 2.5M+ pounds of fresh produce reach their families, 15,000+ pounds grow on student-run farms, and 1,129 trees have gone in the ground since 2022.
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“They nourish the minds of students through lessons in science and health, the stomachs through delicious and healthy treats, and the souls by providing a beautiful place of connection and wonder on campus.”A principal, King Elementary
Give
Give a gift that grows.
The real impact is hard to count: a student who finds her path, a family eating fresher. Your gift keeps these gardens growing.
$50 once · secure · goes straight to a school garden
