About the Skyline Garden
In 2018-2019, our Skyline PTO and teachers first envisioned a school garden space that would provide more outdoor education opportunities for our students. In the fall of 2019, we partnered with the local organization Common Threads to create a program that engaged our students in learning about food from seed to table – providing curriculum about how to grow food as well as cooking and tasting it together. That fall we also broke ground and built a wonderful garden behind our school!
Our garden has always been a community effort! Skyline students, family, teachers and staff helped build the garden; Cub Scouts built the garden beds; and local businesses donated many of our tools and supplies to make the garden what it is today.
Students and teachers alike love the gardening and cooking classes – getting a chance to work in the dirt, and preparing and eating many garden-produced foods enriches their grade-level science curriculums and gives them the opportunity to try foods they might not otherwise. Our partnership with Common Threads continues in the 2024-2025 school year, with each class receiving 2 cooking classes in the winter, and 2 garden classes in the spring.
If you are interested in volunteering with our garden program, wish to make a donation, or have any questions, please email volunteer@skylinepto.org.