Garden Program 

GATEWAY GARDEN

In 2006, Robin Galas piloted the Community School Garden Program at Community School South (CSS) in East Palo Alto. Two years later the program was expanded to Gateway Community School.

The mission of the Garden Program is to foster in students an understanding of where their food comes from and how their food choices affect and impact their environment and their health.

Through experiential learning in both the garden and kitchen, students have the opportunity to organically grow their own fruits and vegetables and prepare healthy dishes.

SALAD FROM THE GARDEN

Their hands-on work is supported by an interdisciplinary curriculum that explores environmental science, food justice issues, nutrition, and promotes environmental stewardship.

In 2008 the Watershed Project in Richmond, California, and StopWaste.org included CSS's garden in their Bay-Friendly School Garden Network as a "model for how to tie environmental practices to classroom curricula, and how school gardens can protect local watersheds and the Bay."

 SOUTH COMMUNITY SCHOOL GARDEN

Other non-profit garden-based work:

The HEAL Project

Collective Roots

Hidden Villa

For more information about the benefits of Garden-Based Education, please read A Call to Action: A Garden in Every School