Teachers and PTA members of Jefferson Elementary School, San Francisco, attended “School Garden Summer Training” last week at Salmon Creek High School, near the town of Occidental, Calif. Twenty-five schools from San Francisco and the Bay Area took part in the training at a cost of $500 per participant.
California is the first state to allocate $15 million to support gardens in the state’s 6,000 schools. Under the program, an average school receives $2,500, which is only a portion of the money needed to sustain a school garden. While only 37 out of 104 schools in the San Francisco district already have a garden, 81 now have applied for funds to create one.
