School Gardens | Community Gardens  

School Gardens

Health Environment Agriculture Learning Project (HEAL) is a unique, hands on, award-winning program that instills healthy lifestyle habits in elementary school children while inspiring environmental and agricultural awareness through a comprehensive, interactive curriculum.  Thanks to consistent support from Kaiser Permanente, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the Hatch Parent Teacher Organization, HEAL will benefit over 600 students in the Cabrillo Unified School District in San Mateo County this year. 

Click to view study that assessed the impact of the Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) nutrition curriculum on improving the nutrition and health knowledge and vegetable preferences of second grade children.  Second graders and their parents in three schools in San Mateo County participated in the study.  The Task Force provided partial funding for this study.  

Collective Roots posts information about events in East Palo Alto (EPA) at the EPA Charter School's Garden, and offers resources, news, tips on how to start a farmers' market and much more.

Valley of Hearts Delight works in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. They host educational speakers, publicize local food news and events, support local gardens, and bring fresh local produce to schools.

The Edible Schoolyard, in collaboration with Martin Luther King Junior Middle School in Berkeley, CA, provides urban public school students with a one-acre organic garden and a kitchen classroom.  Site describes how they started their garden and includes classroom lessons, kitchen lessons, and more.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) website's has a section on Nutrition Education-Gardening with Children.  It information about gardening with children and has links to many sites about how to start gardens in schools or child care centers.

Kidsgarden features stories about successful garden programs, grants, classroom activities and more. 

Community Gardens

Pacifica Gardens is a community garden site is a level parcel of land on the grounds of the former Linda Mar School. As a partnership with the City of Pacifica and the San Francisco Botanical Garden's Adult Education Program, the garden will be a demonstration center for biointensive gardening and permaculture techniques. Pacifica Gardens will be both an educational experience and a source of food and jobs for the local community.

Full Circle Farm in Sunnyvale, CA