School Garden

Our Russo/McEntee community garden features 14 garden beds, a native hedgerow, and a pollinator garden. 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.

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