2025-26 Year in Review
Projects + Partners
We partner with teachers, students, school garden educators, and nonprofits in the Bay and beyond. Scroll down for examples of our work. Email carrie@schoolgardendoctor.org to inquire about specialized contract services.
During the 2025-26 school year, we expanded the Monarch Education Project to five new schools. We also supported four schools with Career Day, including Pueblo Vista, Shearer, and McPherson Magnet Schools. The School Garden Doctor planted an all-native plant butterfly garden at CANV Kids as part of their Outdoor Classroom creation funded by CalFire.
Previous Contracts + Outcomes
Napa RCD (2019-2025)
The School Garden Doctor began working with Napa RCD in 2019, when they were competing for a National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) B-WET Grant. After evaluating the Salmon-to-Sanctuary program through the pandemic years, we have maintained a strong partnership and now collaborate on their school programs.
Farms to Grow, Inc. (2020-2024)
The School Garden Doctor became a partner to this Oakland-based organization in 2020. We offered volunteer grant writing to secure a California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Grant. This effort reached dozens of farmers to enhance yield and competitiveness of specialty crops.
Bird School Project (2021-2023)
The School Garden Doctor supported implementation and evaluation of the Outdoor Science Initiative, a Heller Foundation and NOAA-funded collaborative with the Santa Cruz-based organization in partnership with the Salinas Unified School District in Monterey County.
Napa County Office of Education (2019-2021)
The first USDA Farm-to-School Grant in Napa county was awarded to Napa County Office of Education in 2019. As a collaborator, The School Garden Doctor prepared COOL School staff to plant gardens and deliver garden-enhanced nutrition education (GENE). Watch the “Bite-Sized Video Series.”
“Carrie’s leadership, organizational skills, and expertise in the field helped to create meaningful relationships and sustainable change in the way school gardens are utilized and approached in the school district.”
— Asha Levert-McDowell, Community Programs, NCOE
Bay Friendly Garden Month
In 2021, Carrie recorded a live Zoom and Facebook Workshop on Gardening with Kids as part of Napa RCD’s Bay Friendly Garden Month.
Pandemic Birding
In 2020, Carrie contributed clips to Curiosity Kids a video project produced by American Canyon Community Parks Foundation. This four-part series teaches how make DIY binoculars, find a quiet birdwatching sit spot, identify birds, and attract birds to your backyard or school garden.
