Our impact

The truest impact can't be counted.

It lives quietly: in a student who finds refuge in the garden on a hard day, in a family cooking fresh produce they picked up together after school, in an intern who starts a college application already sure they want an environmental career. What we can count, we share below.

A student studies a water droplet on a leafA Mira Vista student studies a water droplet on a leaf
By the numbers

What we can count.

49

Title 1 partner schools across four East Bay districts.

11,590

students learning in the garden every week.

2.5M+

pounds of fresh produce delivered to school communities.

1,129

trees planted with students and families since 2022.

A schoolyard covered in blacktop before greening
BEFORE · BLACKTOP AND FENCES
The same kind of schoolyard as a completed outdoor classroom
AFTER · AN OUTDOOR CLASSROOM

In 2025 alone, 20,000 square feet of asphalt and unused lawn became living schoolyards.

The full reports

Everything above, with the methods, financials, and the stories behind the numbers.

Fresh from the gardens

Stories from the schools, adapted from the reports.

Read all stories

Where it happens

Every dot is a partner school.

We work on the same ground all year, at 49 schools across West Contra Costa, Oakland, San Lorenzo, and San Leandro Unified.

Tap a district to filter the map.

Give

Give a gift that grows.

Fresh produce on dinner tables, dirt under fingernails during science class, and school gardens that kids can escape into. Your gifts support the impact beyond what can be measured & counted.

A season of fresh CSA boxes for a family

Plant your gift · $100

$100 once · secure · goes straight to a school garden

A student leans in close to a flowering pea vine in her school garden