WHAT’S NEW
SGN raises $2,000 through the Human Race!
The School Garden Network would like to thank everyone that supported us through the Human Race this year. We raised $2,000 – enough to provide two Cooking in the Garden Grants to Sonoma County schools! Several current and past Board and staff members showed up to race with the other 9,000 runners. The Human Race [...]
Get Involved! Volunteer with SGN!
Are you interested in learning about and supporting local school garden projects? Improving school food? Fostering garden-based learning? Connecting kids with the natural world and where food comes from? We are currently seeking passionate people who would like to join the School Garden Network of Sonoma County, now in our 10th year! CURRENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES [...]
Healthy Roots Nutrition Education Program
The School Garden Network is offering, free of charge, a Traveling Nutrition Educator Program to Sonoma County Middle and High Schools for the next school year. Healthy Roots Nutrition Educators teach a four part nutrition curriculum at your school, including a hands on food demonstration. For more information on the program, click here or go the [...]
RECENT NEWS
Statewide Workshops Offered on Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden
The California School Garden Training Program and the California School Garden Network are putting on 7 statewide Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden workshops to help schools start and maintain gardens. For more information, click HERE.
County Launches Online Gardener Certificate Program
The Sonoma County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office, in collaboration with the Sonoma County Dept. of Health Services and the UC Cooperative Extension, announced the launch of an online program to allow local gardeners to sell or donate their eligible produce from school, community or home gardens. The free online self-certification program reflects the County’s commitment to [...]
OAEC School Garden Teacher Training Workshops
The School Garden Program at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (OAEC) is hosting hands-on, residential School Garden Teacher Training workshops for school teams over the summer. OAEC’s School Garden Program is dedicated to cultivating ecological literacy among youth through garden-based transformation in the outdoor learnscape. Applications for the summer program are due by March [...]
Welcome to Our New Website!
Welcome to the School Garden Network’s new and improved website! The biggest change to our website is the Community Forum where registered members can exchange ideas and information related to school gardens on a daily basis. We hope that you will join the group! Also, check out the grants, programs and resources that we have [...]
Announcing the Schoolyard Habitat Program
School Garden Network is pleased to announce a new collaboration with U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s Schoolyard Habitat Program. The Schoolyard Habitat Program helps teachers and students create wildlife habitat at their own schools. A schoolyard habitat project is a naturalized area that is used for classroom field studies and observations. A well-designed project that is integrated into [...]
