Our Mission

The mission of School Garden Network is to grow healthy students, families, schools, and communities through garden-based education. We serve a network of over 160 County-wide schools with 44,000 students, helping to create and maintain immersive garden spaces on school campuses. These gardens break down barriers to fresh food access and inspire healthy food habits, enhance habitat for wildlife, teach ecological literacy and stewardship, and provide a space for students to feel a sense of empowerment, connection, safety, and joy.

Engaged 4,600 students at 10 grantee schools
400 hours of mentorship and technical assistance, including garden improvements and drip irrigation repair
95 Grow Kits distributed to 65 schools
160 Harvest of the Month (HOTM) lessons shared with students, featuring ten crops
HOTM produce purchased locally from 40+ Sonoma County farmers
Hosted two teacher trainings on Soil Health and Composting and Cooking from the Garden

250 hours of mentorship and technical assistance provided for 13 schools
Two new school habitat gardens created
400+ native plants installed in new and existing habitat gardens
Locally grown and adapted milkweed planted to support vulnerable monarch butterflies
Hosted a teacher training on Botanical Arts in School Gardens

Engaged 76 campers
Provided 15 scholarships
Focused on fostering connections with nature, and knowledge around cooking and food systems
Activities included camp songs, games, gardening, food preparation, sun printing and natural tie dye, scavenger hunts, puzzle mind maps, solar energy cooking, cob bench building, bird feeder construction, water color painting, flower crown crafting, herbal crafts, medicine making, nature journaling, and nature exploration