The Discovery Garden
Where our students dig, plant, and grow.
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Something exciting is taking root
Our garden space is becoming the Discovery Garden - twelve themed learning beds, an outdoor classroom under our big oak tree, and a school-wide Garden Passport program that turns every visit into an adventure where curiosity grows.
Sponsor a Bed
🌻 Help Us Grow
Give on Givebutter
Every dollar builds beds, buys seeds, and gets kids' hands in the dirt.
The Local Cafe
Sensory Herb Bed | Our First Official Garden Bed Sponsor!
The Local has always been where Meadow Vista gathers; now they're helping our students touch, smell, and taste their way through lavender, rosemary, lemon balm, and lamb's ear.
THANK YOU!
Heat and Air Solutions, Inc.
Pumpkin Patch | Our Second Garden Bed Sponsor
Heat and Air Solutions keeps Meadow Vista homes comfortable through every season; now they're helping our students plant, tend, and harvest their very own pumpkins for fall in the Pumpkin Patch.
THANK YOU!
Meadow Vista Bottle Store
Sunflower Bed | Our Third Garden Bed Sponsor
MV Bottle Store is one of Meadow Vista's hometown stops; now they're helping our students plant, measure, and marvel at sunflowers that will grow taller than they are in the Sunflower Bed.
THANK YOU!
Your business could be here 🌱
Sponsor a garden bed and grow with us - your logo on this wall, your name in the garden.
Sponsor a Bed - president@sierrahillsptc.org
What's Growing - Twelve Themed Beds
East Side - Discovery & Observation
East Side - Discovery & Observation
🌻 Sunflower Garden
mammoth, teddy bear & Mexican sunflowers kids can measure all season
Sponsored by MV Bottle Store — thank you for helping our students grow a wall of sunflowers taller than they are!
🌈 Rainbow Garden
a full spectrum of flowers & veggies, strawberries to lavender.
🍓 Ice Cream Social Berry Garden
future ice cream social berries growing here!
🫶 Sensory Herb Garden
lamb's ear, lavender, rosemary & lemon balm to touch and smell
Sponsored by The Local Café - thank you for helping our students explore the garden with all five senses!
🦋 Pollinator Paradise
zinnias, cosmos, salvia & yarrow buzzing with visitors
🥬 Salad & Snack Garden
lettuce, carrots, radishes & sugar snap peas
🔬 Discovery Science Lab
student experiments - which seeds sprout fastest?
🌱 Discovery Garden Nursery
the engine that keeps the whole garden growing year after year
West Side - Harvest & Habitat
West Side - Harvest & Habitat
🎃 Pumpkin Patch
grow-your-own pumpkins for fall
Sponsored by Heat and Air Solutions - thank you for helping our students plant, tend, and harvest their very own pumpkins this fall!
🌽 Three Sisters Garden
corn, beans & squash growing together
💐 Cut Flower Garden
blooms to pick and share
🌿 California Native Garden
poppies, buckwheat, yarrow & sage
🍂 This fall: pumpkins, and our first sensory herbs.
🌳 The Discovery Tree
Our big oak becomes the heart of the garden - log seating, an outdoor classroom, and a storytime space. Future touches: a fairy door, an insect hotel, and a student-painted caterpillar trail winding through the beds.
❓ The Wonder Wall
One fence section becomes a giant outdoor curiosity board. Each month brings a new question - Why are worms important? Why do bees like purple flowers? - and students post their theories, diagrams, and discoveries.
The Garden Passport 🛂
Every student gets a Garden Passport. Complete activities during class visits - spot a pollinator, find something fuzzy, sit quietly under the Discovery Tree and record what you hear, smell, and see - and collect stamps toward three levels:
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Junior Garden Scientist
Junior Garden Scientist
10 stamps
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Master Garden Explorer
Master Garden Explorer
20 stamps
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Discovery Garden Champion
Discovery Garden Champion
30 stamps
How You Can Help
This garden is being built by our community, for our kids. Looking for ways to dig in?
⚒️ Volunteer at a work day
Planting, painting color markers, installing signs, building beds. Watch this page and our Facebook for dates.
📦 Donate materials
We'll post specific needs - soil, seeds, lumber, paint - as each phase begins.
👋 Share your skills
Carpenters, gardeners, artists, and organizers all welcome.
🦅 Scout projects
The entrance sign, Wonder Wall, insect hotel, and log seating make great Eagle Scout or service projects. Reach out!
Help curiosity grow 💚
The Discovery Garden is a Sierra Hills PTC project - made possible by family volunteers, our teachers and staff, and the community organizations and grants supporting each phase.
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