Life Lab Partner Schools



Life Lab's Partner School Program strives to create a culture of garden-based learning in elementary schools to enhance science and nutrition education during school day instruction. 

What we do to support school gardens

  • Provide 3 staff that co-teach with classroom teachers at our partner schools every other week.  ~1,200 students per week. Learn more about our partner school program.
  • Create science lessons aligned with the district's Environmental Literacy Plan.
  • Offer free teacher trainings at our Garden Classroom site and at school-based professional development days.
  • Facilitate school garden workdays, plant donations, and provide technical support via our Watsonville School Garden Crew college intern program.
  • Directed over $30,000 of garden materials grant support since 2015.

Life Lab's Partner School Program is part of Life Lab's Pajaro Valley Initiative.


Questions/contact John Fisher 831.471.7831 or gardendirector@lifelab.org

Life Lab Partner Schools

Amesti Elementary
Ann Soldo Elementary
Hall District Elementary
MacQuiddy Elementary
Starlight Elementary
Ohlone Elementary
H.A. Hyde Elementary


Join our Elist

Watsonville School Garden Needs Assessment Survey to join the project's e-list and share what you need to enhance garden-based learning at your school site.

  

Creating and sustaining school gardens is not easy work. We partner with the following organizations who support garden-based learning. 


Major Funders: Sage Garden Project; UNFI Foundation; California Giant Berry Farms; Naturipe Berry Growers; Community Foundation Santa Cruz County; Monterey Peninsula Foundation, host of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am; Kaiser Permanente Northern California Community Benefit Program; UC Global Food Initiative; County of Santa Cruz CalFresh; Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust; and 3 wonderful anonymous donors. 
Partners Include: PVUSD Extended Learning; PVUSD Science Academic Services; AmeriCorps Service Members from Mission Volunteers of Notre Dame & FoodCorps; Food What?!; UCSC and CSUMB Interns; Big Creek Lumber; Suncrest Nurseries; PVUSD Schools and Teachers


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