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Fort Bragg Schools Gardens
Fort Bragg Schools Gardens
Pre-School through High School Continuous Garden-Enhanced Nutrition Education Programs at Fort Bragg Unified School District.
High school kitchen staff receiving greens grown in school gardens.
Redwood Elementary Rainbow Farm
A school garden science and nutrition learning center serving about 500 students ranging from ages 4 – 7 years old: preschool, kindergarten, first, and second graders. Rainbow Farm provides most Redwood Elementary students with their first school gardening experiences.
Above: Rainbow Farm at Redwood Elementary
Below: Flour grinding demonstration in Rainbow Farm outdoor classroom.
Julie Castillo, (707) 961-3567
Garden Enhanced Nutrition Educator pictured above standing in Dana Gray's HOPE Garden.
Dana Gray Elementary HOPE Garden
Hands On Plants Education serving grades 3, 4, and 5, growing upon the Rainbow Farm program. HOPE Garden includes a large kitchen classroom, a greenhouse, several raised beds, a large patio, a thriving orchard, and large lawn area.
Pictured above: Grow the Good Garden at Fort Bragg Middle School
Grow the Good Garden at Fort Bragg Middle School
The newest addition to Fort Bragg Schools Gardens. An outdoor classroom designed to educate middle school students to make informed choices about eating healthful, local, seasonal foods, and have pride in knowing that they are a part of a food producing community. Produce from the Grow the Good Garden is served in the Middle School cafeteria.
Pictured Above: Petra Schulte, Garden Enhanced Nutrition Educator, demonstrating preparation of nutritious garden grown produce.
The Learning Garden at Fort Bragg High School (a project of Noyo Food Forest)
An on-site Farm to School Program and center for education in community-based agriculture and nutrition at Fort Bragg High School. Organic food is grown by students, volunteers, and staff, sold to the FBUSD Food Service Program, and served in all school cafeterias.
Pictured above: The Learning Garden at Fort Bragg High School
“Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.”
Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
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