Acme Elementary

The Acme Elementary School Garden was established by dedicated parents and volunteers in the community. Common Threads joined the fun in the fall of 2017, embedding garden curriculum and cooking in the classroom. This beautiful garden is surrounded by art...

Skyline Elementary

Thanks to avid support from teachers, the school administration and the PTA, a garden site was born at Skyline in the fall of 2019. (Check out this post to read more about and see photos of the work party that started the Skyline garden). While we didn’t get to...

Lowell Elementary

The Lowell garden was established in the Spring of 2016 as the result of Lowell PTA vision, with support from Common Threads. Lowell Principal Mary Sepler remembers the creation of the garden as groups coming together “as a Lowell Family” to make it...

Kulshan Middle School

The Kulshan Middle School garden was started in 2015 with support from Common Threads. The garden was sheet mulched and pieced together from donated items, many coming from Happy Valley school which was dismantling their garden during school reconstruction. A generous...

Kendall Elementary

The Kendall garden has been a place for kids to learn about healthy food since 2009. In 2012 and 2015, the garden underwent expansions facilitated by Kendall’s PTO. The garden is now an enclosed space that contains apple trees anchoring a few raised beds, a...

Harmony Elementary

The Harmony Elementary School Garden was built in the spring of 2017 by a dedicated group of parents, teachers, students and community members. The Harmony garden has become a well loved place by the students as they enjoy walking through the garden, nibbling on kale,...