What We Do

Mission: Lower Columbia School Gardens (LCSG) empowers our community by connecting kids and families with real food and hands-on learning. Through dynamic garden and cooking programs, we cultivate health, equity, life-long learning, and stewardship of the world around us.

After expanding and refining the one-acre garden at Northlake Elementary, our team of educators, students, parents and volunteers set out in 2009 to help other local schools create thriving gardens. Now with a presence in 19 elementary and middle schools in Longview and Kelso, our staff and volunteers garden and cook with hundreds of kids every week.

A few of the many aspects of our work:

LCSG develops curriculum, coordinates community partners and support, distributes food to families in need, and trains garden leaders from other communities.

LCSG has helped create and sustain 19 school gardens (for a total of over 150,000 square feet) in Cowlitz County.

Each year

• over 4,000 students are engaged in dynamic, hands-on cooking, science, and nutrition activities in School Gardens.
• over 450 volunteers support the gardens with their time, energy, knowledge and skills.
• over 5,000 hours are contributed by those volunteers.

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