By Sabrina Blair Last month we discussed creating healthy goals for the new year and how to use a garden as means to expose your kids to fruits and vegetables. How’s that going for you? Hopefully good, but we understand if there’s been some slip ups, especially with leftovers from the holiday season. However, another ...
Recently we had the opportunity to visit three of our school garden grant recipients and discovered they all had one thing in common: they sell the produce they grow to the community as a means of economic sustainability. Our first stop was at Rolling Hills Elementary School in Fullerton, Calif., where we met up with ...
Spring is here! Hopefully the sun is shining, the birds are chirping and you are ready to plant your spring garden! Students at Whittier Elementary in Costa Mesa, CA, got an early start on their spring planting. The 50 or so students in the school’s Nature Club planted carrots, broccoli, eggplant, spinach, chard, tomatoes, radish, ...
By Sabrina Blair Western Growers Foundation has now proudly funded more than 1,000 school gardens throughout Arizona and California. We estimate that approximately 558,800 students have been exposed to fresh fruits and vegetables as a result of these school gardens and that number continues to grow each year as new students are introduced to ...
Western Growers Foundation (WGF) has been graciously awarded a $10,000 grant from Driscoll’s as a part of its Regional Community Grants Program. The grant monies will be redistributed in the form of twenty $500 edible garden grants to K-12 schools throughout Merced, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Tehama and Ventura counties. Tom O’Brien, senior ...
This past year Western Growers Foundation was awarded a $10,000 grant from Driscoll’s as a part of their Regional Community Grants Program. After a competitive application process, WGF is excited to announce the 20 grant winning schools. Each school will receive a $500 check, a copy of our California Gardens for Learning book, seeds and ...
What’s the difference between conventional and organic? How do you handle pests on organic farms? What are you doing to conserve water during the drought? These are some of the questions posed during a recent field trip to Deardorff Family Farms in Oxnard, CA. Deardorff hosted a group of 10th graders from Bell Gardens High ...