Valley Vista Elementary School : Garden

In addition to our generous sponsors, including
The Chez Panisse Foundation, Barbara's Bakery, The CA Department of Education, Mervyn's, Dempsey's Restaurant, and Richard Sharkey of the McDowell Drug Task Force, we are always in need of volunteers, garden docents, and donations for the garden and our annual fundraising auction.

Salad Days
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We've been offering a healthy and abundant salad bar at lunchtime every Tuesday for the past several years. More

Teaching Lessons
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School Garden Curriculum

A very comprehensive standards-based guide to curriculum for grades 2 through 6 has been put together by the California School Garden Network. It can be searched and downloaded from their website. Click here to go to the California School Garden Network.

Curriculum
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Garden-based instruction delivers a broad curriculum which covers all academic areas with an emphasis on science, math, language arts, and nutrition. Students also participate in community service, recycling, and other special projects. More

Our Garden today...
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"Today it is light, very pretty! Happy it makes me to help out here! Every flower is nice. Good vegetables grow. Air is so clean. Red, blue, green, they are beautiful! Dandelions grow, grow, and grow. Everything here is so amazing and nice. Nothing here is ugly or gross."

Valley Vista Student

About Our Garden
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In 2000, we broke ground on one of the first teaching gardens in the county. With a newly hired Garden Coordinator, we set out to educate our students about nutrition, ecology, health, life cycles of plants, cooking, and all the other wonderful lessons a teaching garden offers.