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Encinitas Community Garden

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Abraxas High School Community Garden - Proud students with shovels ready.

Abraxas High School Community Garden

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Abraxas High School is a continuation school serving grades 9-12 in Poway, CA. The total enrollment…read moreat Abraxas Continuation High School is 233 students, making it on the small side. But what Abraxas lacks in numbers, it makes up for with an awesome Community Garden. I drive past it on my way in and out of Poway and love it! It reminds me of the Ocean Beach community garden I once frequented. Gardening is a great thing for the kids here. An article in the San Diego U/T and Pomerado News said "Abraxas has a long-standing reputation as a bad school," said Assistant Principal July Hill-Wilkinson. "Some parents even refuse to send their kids here, even if it is the best environment for their child." This outdated concept that Abraxas is for "bad kids" makes it even more important to have a beautifully admired Community Garden front and center along busy Pomerado Road. Helping to grow things is a nuturing skill that will help students progress in maturation. Having the patience, gentleness and fortitude to plant and tend small seedlings; carefully making sure they grow successfully is Psychology 101 for assisting the teens who might need to feel they are capable of something special like this. I love to garden and although I just do it now on a large patio, there is a real serenity about the endeavor that is truly relaxing and satisfying. If this old gal can achieve bliss with a tomato plant and some sunflowers, imagine what the young lions at Abraxas Community Gardens could do! I was very impressed with what I saw growing there. Abraxas High School's community garden is thriving. Raised boxes on an unused tennis court in the front corner of the campus has become an outdoor center of green learning for many of the students. The garden was begun in June 2015. Fresh produce now overflows and students are learning all kinds of mad skills here. There is an aquaponics system full of tilapia fish; three composting bins and a teaching area is set aside in the center of the garden. I am hopeful these young students are improving their own teen diets by growing and learning about healthy vegetables, fruits and fish. As if this Community Garden couldn't get any more rad, about half of the produce grown in the garden is DONATED to the Backyard Produce Project, and distributed to families in need. The other half is offered to the community for optional donations from a booth that will be set up at certain times in the school's parking lot and manned by students. Heck yeah, I'll take some! I love it! 5 YELP STARS for this amazing "Classroom Without Boundaries" garden and the great high school kids that tend it!

Encinitas Community Garden - communitygardens - Updated May 2026

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