Children in their 5-a-Day T-shirts work on their crossword puzzle to learn about the nutritional value of peppers. Click on this hyperlink for information about the California 5-a-Day program. And here for information about the local Latino 5-a-Day program.

Bonnie Savard, our Gardener and Cooking Instructor, serves vegetarian fajitas she and the older girls cooked while Dr. Yomna Ibrahim (far right) looks on. Dr. Ibrahim, a pediatric resident at LLU School of Medicine, taught the nutrition lesson of the day--about peppers. Photo was also taken by middle school students.

The nutrition topic at Children's Learning Gardens was cherries, so a cup of sweet cherries was the reward for eating carrots, broccoli, peppers, and beans and wearing your 5-a-Day T-shirt. 

Cypress Elementary boys munch on some raw broccoli--earning a rewarding cup of fresh sweet cherries when they got four veggies punched on their nametags. They also had to answer three questions about cherries after LLU Pedicatric Resident Dr. Yomna Ibrahim taught them about the fruit. Another punch was for wearing their 5-a-Day t-shirts.

The rare and endangered Santa Ana River Woolly Star is blooming in profusion at the east end of Palm Meadows Drive in San Bernardino--between the Santa Ana River Levee and the now-closed golf course. The Eco-Elite Youth Empowerment program at The Gardens will involve neighborhood youth in writing interpretive signs about such plants for the section of Santa Ana River Trail soon to be completed in the area. 

Three Serrano Middle School boys help erect a second King Canopy for shelter from rain and sun during after-school programs at The Gardens. The boys must do community service or attend mentoring on other days to get rewarded with a $10 gift card for 90 minutes of work experience education in this "Job Scout" program.