June 3, 2011 • Mindy Nguyen, Oakland High
Imagine walking through the campus of Oakland High School. As you pass by the parking lot, you begin to feel curious about what lies beyond the portable classrooms. Glancing to your left, you are disappointed by the sight of a trashed school garden, and a picket sign that reads, “parking lot under...
May 25, 2011
Students at Oakland High School have been doing more than just planting, weeding and watering their school garden — they’ve developed a marketing campaign to find donors who will support it. Already, an $800 grant from DonorsChoose.org is subsidizing an indoor grow lab, where math resource teacher...
May 25, 2011
Students at Oakland High School in Oakland, Calif., have spent all year working on their school garden, growing vegetables in a special indoor grow lab, and transplanting them to raised beds, which they watered and weeded (without using chemicals). In this video, students dig holes for vegetable seedlings,...
April 26, 2011
Do you have a recipe for a vegetable quiche that will make someone drool? Are you great at whipping up smoothies using fruit from your school garden? Have you figured out what to do with all that kale you planted last fall? Then please consider contributing to the first-ever Oakland School Garden Cookbook,...
March 25, 2011
The garden at the Castlemont Community of Small Schools is an unexpected treasure, including 28 raised beds planted with a variety of fruits and vegetables, plus a large composting bin and two (very loud and healthy) chickens. Journalism students from Leadership Preparatory High School take a video tour...
March 25, 2011 • Mario Ahumada, Johnta Christmas, Kyetta Lamb and Antoinette Sims, Journalism students
March 11, 2011 • DARRELL McCLAIN, Oakland High
Oakland High students and staff have begun planting a garden to remember Phillip Wright, Jr., a student who was killed in November 2009. Resource teacher Amy Wilder and students have begun seedlings for the garden in an indoor grow lab. On Nov. 18, teachers dug a hole for a small tree. “Phillip...
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