Cambridge Elementary School Garden
"School gardens can be a vehicle for teaching standards-based science, mathematics, social science, and English-language arts courses, as well as garden-enhanced nutrition, health, agricultural, and visual art education. School gardens reinforce healthy food choices and lifestyles in an experiential learning environment. Instructional school gardens can nourish students' bodies and minds and also help students develop a better appreciation for sustaining the environment, maintaining our food supply, and prompting stewardship of our earth."   - Jack O'Connell, California's State Superintendent of Public Instruction
 
Cambridge Garden, February 2008 Ms Winsby's Kindergarten Class
(Before: 02/21/08) K1 PM Kindergarten (03/13/08)
 
The first tomato Ekkehardt Keller rototilling
The first tomato of 2008 Ekkehardt Keller, Markham Arboretum board president
 
mulch 5th-graders planting tomatoes
Spreading mulch & cheer Cambridge CARES 5th graders planting tomatoes (04/07/08)
Our school garden was created under the partnership of St. Mary's College and the on-site Cambridge CARES Afterschool Program in 2000. Last year, Cambridge CARES was the recipient of a 2007 California Instructional School Garden Grant, which will help sustain and improve the garden. Children in the Afterschool Program participate in a garden-based program during Spring 2008, taught by students from St. Mary's College. The program teaches stewardship, nutrition, and environmental awareness. This year, the garden is also being supported by the Monument Community Gardens Action Team.
 
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