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California Schools Embrace Green Efforts With School Gardens
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.