30th Anniversary Year In Review

Our 30th year of brining learning to life in a garden was celebrated with many special events. Thanks to all who celebrated with us.

Our School Garden Video Contest had 18 entries, see the winner here.

Birthday Essay Series: The Garden: A Master Teacher was written by a Life Lab camp parent - a great accounts of the power of Garden-Based Learning.
Garden-Based Learning Research Briefs are a great collection of research findings that support garden-based learning with introductions written by Life Lab's Education Director - Whitney Cohen.

30th Birthday Party on May 30th, 2009 was a great affair. See the sights and sounds from our birthday party, including the cake so big it wouldn't fit out the door, in this video.
The School Garden Open House featured 8 Santa Cruz Area School Gardens. About 130 participants visited Santa Cruz area school gardens during the open house.
The School Garden Sustainability Summit took place on September 10-11, 2009 and included 35 school garden leaders from across the state. The summit focused on Regional Support Models for school gardening programs. A summary of summit discussions and resources will be shared via our website in the months to come. There are plans to have a follow-up summit next fall as part of the SF Green Schoolyard Conference in Fall of 2010.

The blog you are reading now was created to document our 30 years of history. Videos, past press and momentus events have been included. Scroll down to 1978 and see how it all began.

This past year local and national press and blogs have covered our birthday events. Here are a few:

Cornell's Garden Based Learning
Com-Food
Cal Ag In the Classroom
Good Grub - Garden-Based Learning
Garden ABC's
Kids Garden News
School Garden Weekly
Ethicurean
Santa Cruz Sentinel