This mapping effort is a broad coalition of organizations working together to map school gardens led by the School Garden Support Organization (SGSO) Network, including GenThrive, The Edible Schoolyard Project, USDA, and others. I found this map to be amazingly full while I also expected more locations in Detroit. I know the original School Garden Collaborative is no longer, Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal Musk attempted work with the school district with his Big Green nonprofit (I don’t think that went anywhere), and more recently Keep Growing Detroit was helping independent teachers set up school gardens.

“The National School Garden Map is an interactive platform that layers school garden locations, support organizations, social vulnerability indicators, and climate risk data in one application. Visit the website landing page for more information: https://bit.ly/sg-map

The City of Detroit has a long history of school garden efforts back as far as the origins of “urban gardening” know as the Home and School Garden Movement in 1917 from the City’s Recreation Department with 600 participants listed. The school garden effort worked with the Detroit Chapter of the National Plant, Flower, and Fruit Guild along with the Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) Extension, now MSU Extension.