San Diego Ag in the Classroom works in service of the San Diego agricultural and educational communities. If you would like to learn more about last year’s efforts and impact, please download our 2025 Year End Review. Contact us if you would like to support or join in our mission to nurture agricultural awareness in the next generation! 2025 Year…
Congratulations to this year’s recipients of San Diego Ag in the Classroom’s Garden Support Program. For 29 years, SDAITC has proudly supported local schools eager to develop and/or implement school gardens that enhance agricultural education for kindergartners to High School seniors. In February, SDAITC awarded 13 schools with funding to either expand, improve or rebuild existing school gardens. The funding…
Our 2024 Year End Review can be downloaded below. The main point – if we all give a little time, talent, and treasure, we can make a great difference for our community. Wishing everyone a safe and secure year ahead. SDAITC 2024 Year End Review
The SDAITC Board awarded 10 Garden Grants in March to Elementary and Middle Schools in Carlsbad, Oceanside, Poway, La Jolla, Lakeside, Santee and San Diego. Schools received between $500 and $1200. Funds awarded will be used to repair, enlarge or upgrade existing school gardens with new garden beds, irrigation systems, rodent control structures, tools, fruit trees, plants, seeds, soil, fertilizer,…
One nice aspect of seasons is that if something doesn’t work out as expected this year, you have the opportunity to try again the next year. Farming and gardening relies on this feature of time. The work comes in cycles of planning, hard effort, celebration and rest/reflection. San Diego Ag in the Classroom has been around since…
SDAITC awarded $10,000 in February to eleven schools to enhance their garden and nutrition programs. School finalists received visits from the grant committee in December. Committee members enjoyed seeing educators and students in action, engaged in hands-on learning focused on seeding and transplanting vegetables, proper fertilizing and watering, pest control, and harvesting the fruits of their labor. All the students…
After two years of unpredictability and isolation, schools and nonprofits have returned to in-person events, allowing people to reconnect and establish a “new normal”, post-pandemic. For SDAITC, we were excited to organize our signature Teacher Resource Fair once again, a year late but better than ever. At the same time, we have responded to society’s greater reliance on online resources…
A fantastic time was had by all at the 2022 Teacher Resource Fair, aka the Food and Flower Happy Hour. The event was organized in partnership with the San Diego Botanic Garden. To see photos from the event, check out our Facebook page (below). We look forward to engaging with the community again soon to support agricultural learning.
We are gearing up for the return of our fantastic, informative, delicious, and beautiful 2022 Teacher Resource Fair – the Food and Flower Happy Hour! It is all set to take place at the San Diego Botanic Garden on Tuesday October 4, 2022 from 4 to 6PM. All attendees will receive this handy gift, the OXO Compost Pail, perfect to…
The SDAITC Garden Education Project Award Committee was busy the past couple months reviewing applications and making visits to the schools, who were chosen as finalists. We had 25 quality applications but had to narrow it down because of reduced funds due to Covid and other factors. Hopefully, we can award all the worthy applications in the future. Because of…