Garden School Foundation

Wishlist

We are now developing the main gardens. You name it, we need it. Here are some ways that you can help:

$25 Become a grazer: Help stock our kitchen garden where every Friday four classes plant, nurture, harvest, taste, and learn about fresh food.

$50 Be a social climber: Contribute toward monkey bars, play structures, and council circles in the new playground.

$100 Urban planner: Become a card-carrying member of the group unpaving paradise one school at a time.

$300 Explorer: Show inner city kids the world. Three hundred dollars sends 70 inner-city kids on a field trip. So far in 2005-6, we have sent 1,100 kids on their first trip to a farmers' market. Planned future trips include nature walks in Los Angeles National Forest with forager Christopher Nyerges and trips to the Arboretum of Los Angeles County to identify the same species of mature specimen trees soon to go on the campus as saplings and calculate their growth rate, shade and cooling properties.

$500 Become an urban forester: Plant a tree with a class.

$1,000 Go native: Contribute to our 1/4 acre California native garden that teaches history, ecology, and conservation.

$2,000 Join the Good Dirt Club. Pay to work. Come tour the school then muck around with our Friday classes.

$5,000 Join the Good Food Club. Have chef Nancy Silverton cook for you.

We are also interested in the following items:
Fruit Trees and Specimen Trees
Hay Bales
Wheelbarrows
Shovels, Trowels, Rakes, and Weeders
Garden/Utility Gloves
Seedcloth
Tables and Benches
Mulch/Compost
Compost Bins
Worm Bins
Garden Hats and Rubber Boots
Rototiller
Hand-washing Station

To donate toward any of the items/classes above or to help us meet our operating costs to run weekly in-school curricular program along with daily after school programs and weekend community programs, please contact us. Garden School Foundation is a non-profit organization that relies on the generosity of individuals, foundations and corporations to make nutrition programs, science gardens, noise barriers, smog filters, and safe play areas standard in Los Angeles public schools. It is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, Federal tax identification number 20-3023426.

Garden School Foundation
1660 Stanford Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310-264-0266