Sauvie Island Academy (SIA) located amongst the rural farmland on Sauvie Island is a public charter K-8 school with strong environmental and place-based 
curriculum. The District has partnered with SIA for several years on a number of projects including native habitat landscaping, edible gardens, and field trips to Sauvie Island Center. Most recently, we have been helping their middle school program build a hoop house for all-season gardening with a pollinator-friendly flower hedge nearby.
Sauvie Island Academy School Garden
Resources
Programs
- School & Community Garden Soil Health Education
- Youth Environmental Education
- Early Detection-Rapid Response (EDRR) Weeds
- Financial Incentives for Sustainable Habitats (FISH) Grant
- School Gardens
- Planting for Pollinators
- Landscaping with Native Plants
Library
- Soil Labs Serving Oregon Documents
- Soil Test Labs Serving Oregon Documents
- The Beautiful Upside of Ugly Produce Documents
- School Gardens Program Opportunities Documents
- Soil Health Curriculum Documents
- Wapato Access Area Habitats & Wildlife Documents
- Farming for Pollinators Publications
- Slugs & Snails, Claudia Groth, OSU Extension Documents
- Growing with Beneficial Insects, Gwendolyn Ellen, OSU Documents
- Dirt Cheap Gardening: Bed Preparation, Sheet Mulching & Straw Bales Documents
- Native Plants for Willamette Valley Yards Publications
- Pollinator Plants for the Pacific Northwest Publications
- Native Pollinators: Bees & Butterflies Documents
- Local Sources for Native Plants Documents
Services
From the blog
Cover Crops Prevent Erosion
After all the rain we’ve had…Sauvie Island Organics reports that the cover crops they planted kept their soil and plants in place through it all! And that was 17 inches of rain since December first!
New & Improved Native Plant Resource!
We, along with many partners, have worked long and hard to update the Native Plants for Pacific NW Gardeners. The newly titled, expanded version features more plants, more information, and more resources for you. Find […]
Juniper garden boxes
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