Love Cultivating Schoolyards (LCS)

Our community garden program, Love Cultivating Schoolyards, is the urban ecology strand of the Oakland Leaf mission. It was launched in 2008. Love Cultivating Schoolyards seeks to transform schoolyards into dynamic learning environments that will improve student and family nutrition; beautify school campuses; integrate ecology, nutrition and sustainability into classroom learning; promote organic food gardens
at home and school; provide after-school education; and generally promote a sustainable, ecologically sound way of life. The program began with the establishment of a garden at the ASCEND school site and has recently added a second garden at the Urban Promise Academy. This program has launched a food scraps composting program at ASCEND, composting 30 lbs. of food per week, and is now establishing a composting program at UPA as well.