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Will Rogers Regenerative Farm

1550 Maple Street, at the corner of 16th & Maple

Half an acre on our campus where students grow food, build healthy soil, and learn from nature. It’s one of the first working regenerative farms on a school campus in the Los Angeles area.

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The farm is cared for by GROW/WILD in partnership with the Will Rogers Learning Community and SMMUSD.

What happens at the farm

  • An outdoor classroom

    Students learn science, math, and more with their hands in the soil: planting, harvesting, composting, and watching what grows, season by season.

  • Regenerative by design

    Cover crops, fruit trees planted among the vegetables, compost made from school food scraps, and drought-tolerant flowers for pollinators all build healthy soil and pull carbon from the air.

  • Habitat & harvest

    Native plant gardens, a reflection garden, a young fruit orchard, and vegetable beds make the farm a home for bees, birds, and butterflies, and a source of fresh food for our community.

Growing season

  • Planting
  • Tomatoes ripening
  • A bee on borage
  • Saving seeds

Photos courtesy of GROW/WILD

Who cares for the farm

The farm opened in the 2021–22 school year, started by Will Rogers parents and local farmers who wanted our kids to grow up knowing where food comes from.

Today it’s stewarded by GROW/WILD, a Los Angeles nonprofit that turns open spaces into thriving habitats and builds resilient communities through land stewardship, regenerative growing, and advocacy for nature. GROW/WILD partners with the Will Rogers Learning Community and the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District to care for the half-acre site and bring nature-based learning to every student. Our farm is its pilot project.

Get involved

  • Lend a hand

    Help care for the gardens, restore habitat, or pitch in at farm events. Families are welcome.

    Email info@growwild.org

  • Come to the farm

    Picnics, festivals, and farm days are open to the whole Will Rogers community. Upcoming dates are below and in the Wednesday newsletter.

    See what’s coming up

  • Support the farm

    Donations to GROW/WILD keep the farm growing and help bring projects like ours to more schools across Los Angeles.

    Donate to GROW/WILD

Coming up at the farm