Garden Classrooms

The Khabele School

Every elementary student attends gardening class once per week, which are led by our on-staff Gardening Teacher, Scott Dubois. Our gardening classes focus on cultivating ecoliteracy, good nutrition, mindfulness, and persistence. These classes maintain our garden classroom and receive hands-on lessons with sustainability, nutrition, botany, weather, and ecology. The majority of the garden space is allocated to annual vegetables and cut flowers, which are either eaten during class or sold by students at a makeshift farm-stand to raise money for the garden.

Hidden Villa

Hidden Villa is a nonprofit educational organization that uses its organic farm, wilderness, and community to teach and provide opportunities to learn about the environment and social justice. Hidden Villa stretches over 1600 acres of open space in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, about 40 miles south of San Francisco. Our mission is to inspire a just and sustainable future through our programs, land and legacy.

Washington Open Elementary

Washington Open Elementary is a parent participation school. Our garden group consists of parents, teachers, students and community members who support an edible garden. The group also supports a native Butterfly garden and a variety of special purpose planters that illustrate different aspects of the curriculum for students at the school. This group supports the parents who are assigned the classroom job of gardener.

Salomon Farm/ Farmin' Fun Day Camp

   The Farmin’ Fun Day Camp provides summer fun for boys and girls ages 4 and older. Activities include environmental exploration, arts and crafts, farming and gardening, animal care, games and much more. The garden will be abundant with vegetables to harvest and sell, the pygmy goats will be caring for new babies in the Bat Barn and you’ll meet other animal residents… donkeys, sheep, goats and chickens! Children of all ages care for the animals each day, work in the gardens, learn about and tend the compost piles, go fishing, hiking, and explore the creek.

THE MILL VALLEY CHILDREN'S GARDEN

The Mill Valley Children's Garden is a ½-acre edible school garden and outdoor classroom, located on the campus of Edna Maguire Elementary School. Started in 1990, the organic and pesticide-free garden is a hands-on treasure for exploratory experimentation as well as age-appropriate, curriculum-based teaching that encompasses math, science, art, writing, nutrition, cooking, and personal and social responsibility.

Nature's Classroom Institute and Montessori School

We are a residential Environmental Education Program and a Montessori Day school. Two programs that complement each other. We are on 400 acres and have a farm and organic garden. The students raise chickens lamas Goats and Ducks.

Creative Lives After School Program

Creative Lives, a solutions-based team of educators helping children to increase well-being, resilience and to fulfill their creative potential. Creative Lives programs offer simple but powerful tools for change, supporting school communities, teachers and parents in attending to the creative well-being of children. The arts, the natural world, improvisation, the creative spirit within each child--these rich arenas provide resources for learning that fuel children’s individual passions and reveal the profound interconnections we share.

The Edible Schoolyard at Hunters Point, Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco

The Edible Schoolyard at Hunters Point, established in 2008, is an organic teaching garden and kitchen program at The Willie Mays Boys & Girls Club in San Francisco. It is the first afterschool program in the country to become a founding affiliate of The Edible Schoolyard Project, which was started in Berkeley by Alice Waters. For just $10 a year, cooking and gardening classes are offered to three age groups each week: elementary, middle school, and high school youth.

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