Short Elementary School

The goal of the Short School Garden project is to create a unifying center for our school community that brings together families and creates an outdoor classroom where teachers can incorporate hands-on learning. Our garden will transform an existing school parking area into a vegetable garden that produces food for our needy families and opportunities for parent involvement.
A grant from the Whole Foods Foundation will move the project forward with the necessary funding to complete the raised gardens. Through our garden consultants, the Marin Master Gardeners, we project that our garden will produce over 2,000 pounds of fresh tomatoes and vegetables to help support the nutritional needs of our families - 93% who are impoverished and lack food security.
Our garden will also include parents who have felt disenfranchised in the past due to the lack of language skills and education background. They will now become stakeholders at the table.