Creating the East Corte Madera Community Garden

This project is youth-led by the Redwood Botany Club, a group of students committed to studying and applying sustainable agricultural practices. At our small farm at Redwood High, we grow produce and native flowers and farm through sustainable agriculture practices, teaching fellow students to appreciate plants and the natural world. Botany Club members are avid plant enjoyers and eager environmental sustainers. With the partnership of nonprofit Refugia Marin, we now have transcended our passion to create the first community garden in Corte Madera.

The East Corte Madera Community Garden will be open to the public, with no locks or restrictions, creating an inviting space for communal use and viewing. It will serve as a living classroom, offering educational opportunities for local schools, including youth-led projects. Anything is better than the current condition, where it is currently bare and underutilized and will be transformed into a vibrant and educational native plant habitat.

Inspired and supported by Refugia Marin’s Native Habitat Garden in Town Park, this habitat will be the focal point of the garden. It will feature a variety of native plants and trees to attract pollinators, providing an educational and beautified space for the community.

The garden will serve as a communal, educational, and environmentally beneficial space, promoting the appreciation of nature and biodiversity within the community.

Your contribution will fund the necessary landscaping contracting, implement a community-accessible food source with plants, and create an educational place of refuge open to the public.

We are so thankful for your support, as we are doing this for everyone and, ultimately, for the Earth. Let's do this together! See us in action below.