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One Cool Earth creates thriving school garden programs that power healthy, happy, and smart youth. School Gardens
Every child deserves a place to grow.

Since 2001, we've united with communities and schools to create thriving school garden programs that grow successful students. School Gardens Are...
Living Laboratories! A way to bridge text-book academics with engaging, real world experiences. Good for our Health!
A tool to make nutrition personal and fun by growing and eating food in the garden. A path to wellness!
The best way to bring people together to make a difference, and give space for exploration and play! Native Plantings
Since 1990, One Cool Earth has planted over 20,000 native plants throughout San Luis Obispo County. Our organization's history with native plant restoration helped us plant our roots in the community.

11/06/2026

We crafted a potato tower at Play Grove and are eagerly awaiting a big potato harvest in our garden🥔🪏
Stay tuned to see how many we grow!

10/31/2026

Garden Trivia Night is back! 👩‍🌾 Bring your friends, family, garden enthusiasts and join us for another fun evening of garden-inspired trivia at Shindig C***r!

We’ll be joined by Mr. Perez as our host, with plant trivia, friendly competition, and some amazing raffle prizes donated by local businesses.

20% of bar sales will go toward supporting One Cool Earth’s garden-based education programs, helping kids across SLO County grow happy, healthy, and smart. 🌱

📆 Tuesday, Nov. 17 6-8 PM
📍Shindig C***r, 3055 Duncan Rd, Suite D, San Luis Obispo

We’ll be sharing more about the raffle prizes in the coming days! We hope to see you there 💚

10/29/2026

We are so grateful for all of our volunteers!

We have a Cal Poly SLO College Corps volunteer at Play Grove, Garden Educator Assistants at multiple school gardens, volunteers assisting Under the Trees, and volunteers at each Garden Work Party!

Thank you to everyone who shows up in the school garden and helps us grow, we couldn’t do this work without our community💚

10/28/2026

Check out our second lesson series of the school year! 🌱

In Food, Water, and Drought, students became acorn engineers, planted in their mini greenhouses and sorted through their school’s waste to find ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Swipe to see it all in action.

More garden adventures coming soon! 🙌

10/23/2026

💚 Meet our Green Teams! 💚

Green Teams are small groups of student volunteers who help lead waste sorting at lunch and keep our school garden worm bins well fed! 🪱

Here’s how it works:
🪣 Before lunch: Green Team members grab their compost buckets and set them up at the lunchroom waste station.
🍎 End of Lunch: They help classmates sort their waste into compost, recycling, and trash.
🪱After lunch: They bring the food scraps to the garden, mash them up, feed the vermicompost bins, and rinse out the buckets for next time.

We’re so proud of all our Green Team leaders for showing their schools how to sort waste responsibly and turn food scraps into healthy soil for the garden! 🌎

10/22/2026

Come for a tour of Play Grove!☀️
Scan the code to sign up and see the magic in action.

10/21/2026

What is a waste audit? 🔍

A waste audit is a hands-on way to look at what typically gets thrown away at school and learn where each item belongs, whether that’s recycling, compost, or trash! ♻️

Audits help schools improve their lunchtime waste sorting and help students build good habits when it comes to disposing of waste. 🍎🪱

this Zero Waste Week 2,640 students are receiving a waste audit lesson and learning how to sort their waste, and 7 of our partner schools will be practicing their sorting skills with school-wide waste audits! 🙌 Stay tuned to see our school Green Teams put these skills into practice beyond the audit! 💚♻️

10/20/2026

A big thank you to Nicole and Brian from SLO County IWMA for coming out to train our team on local waste management! ♻️

They taught us how to properly sort waste so we can pass that knowledge on to our students, and shared some exciting ways recycled materials are being reused, like cartons being turned into insulation for homes! 🏠

We feel ready to lead our Waste Audits and Zero Waste Week lessons in our school gardens.
🌱Stay tuned!

10/18/2026

Check out our 4th graders at Cappy Culver Elementary with their National Parks passes! ☀️

The Every Kid Outdoors (EKO) Outdoors Alliance for Kids program gives free National Parks passes to every fourth grader in
the country, allowing U.S. fourth graders and family members free access to over 2,000 federal
lands and waters so you can discover our wildlife, resources, and history. Every Kid Outdoors
creates crucial connections to public lands and inspires a future generation of stewards for America’s spectacular national parks and other public lands.

Learn more and get your pass at EveryKidOutdoors.gov

Address

P. O. Box 150
San Luis Obispo, CA
93406

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+18052426301

Website

http://www.onecoolearth.org/

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