The School Garden Network

Washington ElementaryPilot Garden

San Diego, CA

We're here to challenge designers to redefine their roles, building communities one project at a time.

The School Garden Network:

Supporting Healthy Students and a Healthy

Environment, One School at a Time

Winning entry for Rebuild’s ProjectFIND competition by Taylor

Scherner

Project Goals:• Each San Diego County Elementary school to receive their own vegetable garden• On-site kitchen for interactive lessons with local chefs incorporating produce from the gardens to foster healthy eating• Educational field trips to local farms to teach the importance of buying local produce• Teaching the importance of living an environmentally-conscious lifestyle

Site

Urban Garden

“School gardening is seen as an activity that enables schools to provide dynamic environments that support student mastery of educational standards”

-California Department of Education 2002

School Gardens

Logistics

ProcessDesignVisionFunding

“A School Garden offers a wonderful, creative space in which children of all abilities can achieve something real that is valued by others” – School Garden Wizard

www.schoolgardenwizard.org Process

Basic Design Principles

Garden Vision

Garden Types

Fundraising!!

Supplies

Gardening ToolsKitchen ToolsPlant Suggestions

Gardening Tools Needed

Kitchen Tools Needed

Plant Suggestions

Case Studies

School Gardens

Case Study -1

Advice:

“Just do it! Don’t wait for all conditions to be perfect—just start and go with what you have. It may take years for the ‘vision’ to take its final form. Don’t let your own limitations determine whether or not you should start a school garden. The students play a huge role and you have to just go with it”

Case Study -2

Gateway School Garden, Santa Cruiz

Case Study -3

Bonny Doon Elementary

School Life Lab

Solar Powered

Case Study -4

Holy Cross Life Lab

Case Study -5

Green Acres, Santa Cruiz

Case Study -6

Westlake, Santa Cruiz

Case Study -7

Valencia Elementary,

Aptos

Case Studies

GreenhousesGathering SpacesTool Sheds

Greenhouse Case Study

Greenhouse Case Study cont.

Gathering Spaces

Gathering Spaces cont.

Gathering Spaces cont.

Gathering Spaces cont.

Gathering Spaces cont.

Tool Sheds

Case Studies

Cooking Systems

Case Studies

Kitchen and Sink

Kitchen and Sink Case Study

Kitchen and Sink Case Study cont.

Kitchen and Sink Case Study cont.

Kitchen and Sink Case Study cont.

Case Studies

BedsIrrigation

Movable Beds

PVC Hoops for Birds

Wheelchair Bed

Metal Strap

Hexagon Beds

Raised Beds vs Inground

Container Garden

Cement Block Beds

Sponsors

Soaker Hose

Drip Lines On/Off

Wine Barrel Containers

Interactive and cost effective watering systems

Case Studies

Compost Bins

Class Room Ideas

Root BoxWeather Station

Human Sundial Solar Bird Bath

Garden Tunnel

Desk Garden

PVC Plant Done Trelis

Sink Garden

Tire Garden

Shed doubles as teaching area

Proposed Kitchen Structure for Sherman Elementary School Garden

Will YOU help us transform this space into a living classroom?