The International Community Foundation is establishing a children’s garden on its National City property to teach healthy eating, nutrition and gardening techniques to school children. Some of the initial start up costs for the garden is being paid for with a $148,000 grant the foundation received from The California Endowment. Additionally, the International Community Foundation received a $25,000 challenge grant from the Rokenbok Fund at the San Diego Foundation to benefit the school garden program. Olivewood Gardens, which will be located on a 6.85 acre property owned by the foundation, will serve as an educational facility initially for students of National City's Olivewood School and neighboring schools in National City, and eventually may be utilized by children throughout the region. The garden will also serve as a destination for field trips for local school children and as a training location for teachers in garden-based learning. Working with the Resource Conservation District of Greater San Diego County (http://www.rcdsandiego.org/), the goal of Olivewood Gardens is to centralize support for garden-based learning for Olivewood School and the National City School District, and thereafter expand collaborations with other school districts to create positive change in school food service policies, public health trends, and environmental health.
This new garden project compliments the foundation’s existing ½-acre organic garden which generates produce for the UC San Diego Cancer Center’s Healing Foods Kitchen.
Challenge Grant for $25,000
Help us meet our goal!
The Rokenbok Fund at the San Diego Foundation
has made a 1:1 challenge grant for the Olivewood Gardens.
Call Amy Carstensen at 619-336-2253
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