Head Start Garden Project


2011 Head Start Garden Grant Awardees
    • Contra Costa County Community Services Bureau Head Start*
    • Delta Sigma Theta Head Start/State Preschool
    • El Dorado County Office of Education, Child Development Programs
    • Empire Head Start
    • Foundation for Early Childhoold Education, Inc
    • Glenn County Office of Education
    • Head Start Child Development Council, Inc.*
    • High Desert New Beginnings, Inc.
    • Karuk Tribe Head Start
    • KidZKount, PCAC
    • Lake Family Resource Center Early Head Start
    • Los Angeles Unified School District
    • MAAC Project Head Start*
    • Marin Head Start
    • Modesto City Schools
    • North Coast Opportunities Head Start Child Development Program
    • Northcoast Children's Services*
    • Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment Early Childhood Education*
    • Plaza De La Raza Child Development Services, Inc.
    • Rescue Head Start
    • Salida Union School District
    • San Jacinto Unified School District
    • SETA Head Start*
    • San Juan Unified School District -ECE
    • Wu Yee Children's Service
    • Yolo County Office of Education Head Start

* multiple awards received

The Head Start Garden Project is sponsored by Western Growers Foundation (WGF). This program is made possible by a USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant through the California Department of Food & Agriculture, with additional financial support from Lakeshore Learning.


Download a copy of the Garden Guide

Head Start Garden Project Kit


Lakeshore Learning Materials is offering
a special kit to help support the
Kit Information & Order Form

Thanks to the 2006 California Head Start Association
Garden Project Committee for help with this project.

Head Start Garden Project Committee

Julie Andrews - Economic Opportunity Commission of San Luis Obispo
Cathy Bart - Marin Head Start
Chris Berman - Marin Head Start
Jackie Brown - Placer Community Action Council
April Cunningham - NCO Head Start CDP
Donna Harris - Contra Costa CSD
Robin Pence - Marin Head Start
Miriam Tcheng - Merced County Head Start
Maria Tiangha - City of Oakland Head Start
Sherine Pahlavan - CHSA AmeriCorp Member
Edward Condon - CHSA Executive Director

A special thanks to David Haskell the Project Director of the Garden of Eatin’
Project in Marin County for supplying invaluable expertise as well as providing
 pictures of the children that were taken in the garden.

Gardening Links

Western Growers Foundation - http://www.wga.com/
California School Garden Network- http://www.csgn.org/
National Gardening Association - http://www.garden.org/home
California Master Gardeners - http://www.mastergardeners.org/
California Garden Clubs, Inc.- http://www.californiagardenclubs.org/
Organic Gardening - http://www.organicgardening.com/
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