Nature Collective, a conservation and science education nonprofit leader in San Diego County, recently installed a new garden at North Broadway Elementary School with students.
The garden is one of three that will be installed at elementary schools within the Escondido Union School District. The gardens feature native San Diego County plants that support bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. The green spaces improve ecological health, provide habitats for pollinators, and combat urban challenges like water runoff and heat islands.
Educators also plan to use the gardens as living classrooms for programs, such as an eight-week after-school program led by Nature Collective in collaboration with EUSD. In these programs, students learn about gardens, pollinators, and plants through garden safaris, flower model relays, pollination games, garden math, poetry writing, and seed exploration.
For more information about Nature Collective, go to naturecollective.org.
