Monroe Elementary

The garden at Monroe Elementary is a project that students, teachers, and community alike, have taken ownership of. It is our plan to continue to make improvements to our garden to ensure that it endures for future classrooms at Monroe to enjoy and learn from. One major component of the vision for the garden that has not yet been realized is to provide an irrigation system. Currently Monroe is the only Santa Barbara School District school participating in the Explore Ecology Garden Program that does not have a drip irrigation system. In the past water has been brought out to the garden from classrooms and hoses have had to be attached to faucets inside classrooms and run out to the garden. The current goal of Monroe School is to improve the school garden by outfitting it with an irrigation system that will provide better water access and remove the need to disrupt classrooms. It will be an automated system which will help to maintain the garden during vacations and the summer break.