Garvey Nature Garden
Saturday April 23, 2022 | 10AM - 5PM
Garvey Intermediate School
Design & Care: Jesse Chang (Catalyst San Gabriel Valley), Michael Naka (Garvey Intermediate School), community, and partners
Garden Size: 10,416 sq. ft.
Started: 2016
Garvey Nature Garden at Garvey Intermediate School in Rosemead, CA is one of the featured gardens on this year's tour. Thanks to Jesse Chang & Michael Naka, students growing up in the urban environment have the connect with nature in their daily lives.
"I grew up with acres of woodland in New England where I could wander and wonder at nature all around me. Each school garden I create is a small way for our urban youth to reconnect to nature, to a sense of place and to our local ecology disrupted by concrete and exotics. I quote nature educator David Sobel on the primary reason for creating native habitat on school campuses: 'What’s important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it and feel comfortable with it, before being asked to heal its wounds.'"
Video: Marie Astrid Gonzalez
Photography: Jesse Chang and Erin Johnson
Editing: Bruce Guido www.bruceguido.com/
Music: Sage Against the Machine / @sageagainstthemachine...