Map of Participating Schools
Since 1998, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) has trained and supported
528 teachers, helping establish gardens in 198 schools as of January 2011.
The vast majority of our participating schools are in the Greater SF Bay Area.
OAEC works to cultivate ecological literacy in children and communities through school gardens and related curriculum. In 2010 approximately 55,000 students directly benefited from these school garden programs.
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In addition to individual school sites, OAEC has trained non-profits which offer garden-based education to thousands of school children annually including: Garden for the Environment (SF), the Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco, Urban Sprouts (SF), S’Cool Food Program (Santa Barbara, 16 schools and growing), the YMCA, Slide Ranch (Marin), the Hawaii School Garden Network (serving multiple low-income schools on the Hawaiian Islands), and a juvenile detention facility in Siskiyou County, CA.
OAEC works to cultivate ecological literacy in children and communities through school gardens and related curriculum. In 2010 approximately 55,000 students directly benefited from these school garden programs.
View Map in a larger interactive map
Not shown on map:
In addition to individual school sites, OAEC has trained non-profits which offer garden-based education to thousands of school children annually including: Garden for the Environment (SF), the Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco, Urban Sprouts (SF), S’Cool Food Program (Santa Barbara, 16 schools and growing), the YMCA, Slide Ranch (Marin), the Hawaii School Garden Network (serving multiple low-income schools on the Hawaiian Islands), and a juvenile detention facility in Siskiyou County, CA.