The Edible School Garden at Mt. Washington Elementary exists because of passionate community engagement and hard work.

We have a variety of garden spaces on campus. The two main spaces are the lower garden (on the main yard) and upper garden (beside and behind the kindergarten classes.) 

The Garden Program at Mount Washington Elementary aims to cultivate a love, curiosity, and respect for our planet and more specifically, plant life that is native to Southern California! Our younger students have access to well-maintained plant beds that they tend to with their teachers and parent volunteers, while our upper-grades interface with an instructor who shares with our students his native ancestry, traditions, and the importance of native plant knowledge.

TO HELP SUPPORT OUR SCHOOL GARDENS,
please sign-up for a produce box through Farm Fresh to You.

Fresh produce will be delivered right to your house. Go to the website: farmfreshtoyou.com and use the promo code: fomws to help sustain the school garden. Ten percent of the proceeds of each box goes directly to our gardens.

Organic gardening with the children at Mt. Washington Elementary School

Since its inception in 2009, the Edible School Garden at Mt. Washington Elementary School has become integral to the core academic mission of the school. The garden helps bring alive every subject from reading and writing to science and art, not to mention the practice of healthy eating habits. It creates a level of hands-on education in which children themselves do the work in the vegetable beds, awakening their senses and opening their minds both to core academic subjects and the world around them.

Each class at Mt. Washington Elementary School can have their own planter box where the children learn about gardening. With help from parent volunteers, our children are involved in the entire process from seed planting to harvesting, when they get to enjoy the fruits or, in most classes, the vegetables of their labor with a salad party.  

NEXT UP: COMPOSTING!

FOMWS is exploring how to begin a lunchtime composting and recycling program, to get our students involved in the process and spread the word about the benefits of composting. Organic waste makes up more than half of the stuff in landfills and when it decomposes it creates methane, a greenhouse gas as much as 84 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

GARDEN RESOURCES

Go to our blog at mwschoolgarden.wordpress.com to learn more about the activities we do with the children at school and how you can help! There are many resources for garden reps here.

Join as a volunteer! Contact your child's teacher or email mwschoolgarden@gmail.com or fill out the form below.

OUR SUPPORTERS

A special thank you to: 

  • Orchard Supply Hardware in South Pasadena for donating seeds!

  • Home Depot in Glassell Park for donating gardening materials & soil!

  • Whole Foods for awarding us a grant.

  • Every community member who has enrolled in Farm Fresh to You.