Environmental education on campuses through the lens of nature and team building activities.
Our successful clean up, soil prep, planting and watering with the Nutritional Advisory Council and ASB students (who came in the morning on a pupil free day!) at Baldwin Elementary.
We appreciate Sprouts Foundation for their support of this garden program.
Thanks to @ActiveSGV for hosting the Clean Air and Water Fair this past weekend! We were able to meet some fellow local environmental groups at a converted school with mature native landscaping and also gave away narrow leaf milkweed to 58 additional community members!
Our workshop at @MontereyParkLib was a success as well. Again thanks to Alhambra HS #ERAS club (@alhambra_eras) for volunteering. The library staff wants us to come back for additional workshops in the future!
Thank you to #AlhambraLibrary and #ERAS (Alhambra High School’s Environmental Resource Society; @alhambra_eras on Instagram) for hosting and helping with our first Monarch and Milkweed workshop with seed sowing and plant giveaway! We had a full house of very engaged community members learning and connecting over the importance of gardening to support Monarch butterflies!
Thanks to the support of the San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District.
#SanGabrielHighSchool’s Matador garden got a refresh this past weekend: students and our garden team helped finish their drip irrigation system, weeded and replanted both the native garden section and all the raised beds. This enhanced green space is cherished and used by students from all over campus, and now it will be more productive and beautiful as we head into the fall/winter garden season!
Baldwin Elementary’s farm to table garden program kicks off with a simple caprese salad garden, with planting of cherry tomatoes, basil and oregano in one of the empty beds. We also learned how to propagate potatoes that started sprouting as well as clipping basil and oregano cuttings to root in water. Thanks to a monster group of 30 student who turned out for the school’s NAC (Nutritional Advisory Council) and for helping and learning as well as a thank you to Sprouts Foundation for funding another year at Baldwin!
We spared no time to get started on the 4th/5th grade edible garden at #Ynez Elementary on the first week of school. Some of the herbs and veggies will help with the cooking enrichment classes that restart next month. Students were excited to plant and water!”
We are grateful for the generous Panda Charitable Family Foundation grant that will support and continue the local school garden projects we have throughout the west San Gabriel Valley. Here’s to more students benefiting from these outdoor classrooms about local ecology and how to grow and enjoy their own food!
A successful native milkweed giveaway to support declining Monarch butterfly populations at the Monterey Park Farmers Market. We gave over 300+ plants to 84 people in only an hour and a half! Thanks for the support and partnership with the Parks and Rec. Dept. of the City of Monterey Park, and the San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District.
Catalyst SGV is giving out native milkweed grown from seed to support declining Monarch butterfly populations at the Monterey Park Farmers Market on Thursday, August 26, 2026 from 4:30pm until supplies last. This is a project we have also had student engagement with among our school partners for the last two seasons – they are always excited to see caterpillars on the plants as they grow.
