Yoga and Salad in the Lower Garden

A new tradition has begun at Rosa Parks as students join Seed-to-Mouth Garden Educator, Annie, for weekly yoga sessions in the Lower Garden. Students were also treated to an impromptu Salad Day thanks to all of the extra veggies in the gardens. Plus, get a recipe for Four-Ingredient Homemade Croutons!

Salad Days Are Back!

September is a month of beginnings – the beginning of the school year, the beginning of fall – and at John Muir Elementary School, it marked the beginning of our monthly Salad Days. Since students also participate in our Environmental Education classes, Salad Days allow them to be fully engaged in all the steps of the garden process: planting, cultivating, harvesting, and most importantly, eating!

John Muir Loves Salads!

Another great Salad Day at John Muir School, thanks to Kaiser-Permanente and Gus' Market on Harrison Street. We were honored to get organic greens, fuji apples, carrots, cucumbers and peppers....

Salad Days at John Muir

Thanks to a grant from Kaiser-Permanente Community Benefit Program, CommunityGrows is able to continue offering Salad Days at John Muir School. With a great donation of organic greens, carrots...

A Taste of Summer

While we weren’t gone long for summer break at the Edible Schoolyard, we were gone just long enough to come back and be welcomed by a bounty of mature summer crops - cucumbers, lush ears of...

Cooking at Willie Mays

by Crystal Jones, CommunityGrows Seed-to-Mouth Cooking Programs Manager
During the month of February we had several exciting program meetings with youth Willie Mays Club members in the Seed...