Grow Together

The vision of Grow Together Gardens is to cultivate gardens for healing, education, community empowerment, and ecological stewardship.

Through school garden programming, Grow Together utilizes a stewardship-based approach to garden learning, putting into practice place-based and social-emotional learning strategies. Their team of garden educators support 5 Humboldt County schools with their garden stewards programming, reaching over 1,000 students in grades TK-8. Students cultivate a wide variety of edible, medicinal, and native plants, prepare seasonal recipes, make garden-based art, learn land stewardship practices, and explore their role in maintaining healthy ecosystems. These garden programs grow outdoor environments as places for learning, self-reflection, self-inquiry, and self-care.

In addition to school garden programming, Grow Together is supporting the development of a land-based healing center, the Sorrel Leaf Healing Center, by facilitating collaborative community designs that focus on land restoration. In 2026, the Sorrel Leaf Healing Center will open a residential facility in Eureka to serve Humboldt, Mendocino, Trinity, and Del Norte County youth experiencing mental health crises.

Garden collaborations focus on reciprocal and regenerative practices of earth stewardship, centering the relational nature of place-based learning. Grow Together is committed to an intersectional, interdisciplinary, “hands in” approach, encouraging community engagement at every step of the process and getting as many hands in the soil as possible.

To learn more about Grow Together’s projects, email Tayloranne Finch [email protected]

Grow Together has worked in partnership with the Humboldt County Office of Education’s Humboldt School Garden Collective & Nutrition Program, Flowers for People, Creative Sanctuary, the Grace Us Foundation, Centro del Pueblo, the Wiyot Tribe, Luna Farm, Loleta Community Resource Department, the American Heart Association, Eureka Community Schools, the CA Farm to School Incubator Program, Eureka City Schools Food Service Department, Redwood Roots Farm, and Sorrel Leaf Healing Center’s Cultural Council.

Garden-based designs and programming collaborations include Alice Birney Elementary School, Pacific Union School, Loleta School District, Fuente Nueva Charter School, Lafayette Elementary School, Grant Elementary School, and the Sorrel Leaf Healing Center.

Collaborators, designers, and garden educators include Tayloranne Finch, Jesse Alm, Natalie Williams, Sara Kei Wegmüller, Julio Torres, Fig Fishkin, Ava Warner, Chiemi Lehner, EmmaLee Constant, Yajaira Padilla, Daniel Nickerson, and Rory Cullifer.