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School Garden

 

Our Russo/McEntee community garden features 16 garden beds, a native hedgerow, and a pollinator garden. Students and staff created the garden from scratch in 2023. Since, our students and staff are constantly designing and creating new spaces for native plants, pollinators, and edible crops in currently underutilized spaces. We utilize regenerative and sustainable gardening practices such as composting, mulching, seed collecting, drip irrigation, water harvesting, prioritizing perennial and native plants, no-till garden beds, succession planting, cover cropping, companion planting, and square-foot gardening. Students learn about the above practices and writing and mathematic standards during weekly garden lessons.

This program funded by the Outdoor Equity Grants Program, created through AB 209 and administered by California State Parks, Office of Grants and Local Services.

BEFORE

A young girl in the foreground holds a clump of weeds while other children work in a grassy field with a building in the background.
Children in school uniforms plant seeds in a raised garden bed in the foreground, with a school building and a clear blue sky in the background.

AFTER

Children work in a lush garden in front of a building with a green roof under a clear blue sky.
Raised garden beds filled with plants are surrounded by colorful tiles in the foreground, while mature trees and a building form the background.