“... the garden furnishes abundance of subject matter for use in the composition, spelling, reading, arithmetic, geography, and history classes. A real bug found eating on the child’s cabbage plant in his little garden will be taken up with a vengeance in his composition class. He would much prefer to spell the real, living radish in the garden than the lifeless radish in the book. He would much prefer to figure on the profit of the onions sold from his garden than those sold by some John Jones of Philadelphia.”
George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
Welcome to the Garden...
The Santa Ynez Valley Charter School Garden is a part of the larger Explore Ecology School Gardens Program, a network of 30 Santa Barbara County School Gardens on Elementary campuses. The goal of the School Gardens Program is to connect students with their environment and their food through hands on, meaningful lessons in their school garden.
1st Grade Planting a Rainbow
2nd Grade, sorting our rock collection and learning about Geodes!
Planted in 2008...The first apple from the Arkansas Black Spur...October 2013
It's fun to make magical fairy gardens!
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Attention all parents and students: we need your help! 70 TONS of mulch have been delivered to the garden (thank you SB County!). Can you spend an hour or two and help spread it around the garden?
The garden is lonely in the summer...
4 Square American Colonial Garden & the Betsy Ross Flag by 5th Grade
Stop by and see the Composting Mural!
A vascular plant
Thank you to the Merz Family for donating this redwood tree!
Erosion Study Area, 5th Grade
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In the News: Earth Day 2016
http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=f43870de02d06ceb4352abf54&id=31b6095a4e&e=3fa2103ca4 
Inside the Nature Center - Spring 2014
SYVNature.org
SANTA YNEZ VALLEY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 2014 Student Education Award Recipients The Santa Ynez Valley Natural History Society has awarded Ms. Theresa Reilly and Ms. Tonya Crandall its Student Education Award in recognition of the Santa Ynez River Watershed Curriculum. Developed for our 4th grade class, this curriculum featured lessons in the classroom, in the school garden, and field trips throughout our watershed. Thank you: New Frontiers, NatureTrack, SB Flyfishers, and our school garden sponsors! 
Our Amazing Kinders!
Goodbye Chlorophyll, see u next year!
5th Grade fixing up the 4 Square American Colonial Garden - good job everyone!
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Where are the trees?
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Ms. Reilly's 4th Grade
The Santa Ynez Valley Watershed
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Our beautiful bottle tree!
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Orange-Glo Watermelon is delicious!
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Our Middle School Ag Class tested our soil and determined that it is deficient in the vital nutrients plants need to grow. They are adding our own compost back to the soil.
NPK: made with our food scraps, decomposers, and worms from Uncle Pete's Worm Farm!
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I did not start a garden simply to grow a few vegetables and flowers. The garden was used as a means to show how willing and anxious children are to work, and to teach them in their work some necessary civic virtues; private care of public property, economy, honesty, application, concentration, self government, civic pride, justice, the dignity of labor, and the love of nature by opening to their minds the little we know of her mysteries, more wonderful than any fairy tale."
1902, Fannie Griscom Parsons started the Children's School Farm in Manhattan, NY. |
A Little Lizard Friend...
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Enjoying the Sunflower House!
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Our Sponsors...We thank you for your support! |
New Frontiers Marketplace
Kate's Yogurt Harrison Hardware Valley Hardware Windmill Nursery The Rock Depot SY Stone SYV Youth Recreation |
The SY Valley Foundation
The Parents, Teachers, Students, and Friends of SYVCS Captain Planet Foundation The Elks/Old SY Day Committee National Wildlife Federation Adopt A Classroom. Org |
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Thank You for Helping
Our Garden Grow!
Our Garden Grow!
...The SYVCS Garden, est in Summer, 2008...
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