California Native Garden Foundation

The California Native Garden Foundation is a non-profit educational, research, and resource organization that promotes gardening with California native plants. We work with Elementary, Middle and High Schools to design and build gardens using our healthy land use model, using native and traditional food plants, and urban farming technologies such as food towers and aquaponics. Developing curriculum, we are guided by our four pillars of education: Science Standards, Sustainability, Eco-literacy, and Food Nutrition, which we teach in our ELSEE school gardens: Environmental Laboratory for Sustainability and Ecological Education. We are devoted to educating the public and design community on the value of native gardens. Classes, field trips, lectures, garden tours, and publications are available to members, landscape professionals, and the public.