Edible Schoolyard Berkeley

Really well thought out program taught by excellent teachers. I've watched teams of 8 to 10 middle school kids work as a well honed team create a plan, execute it, and regroup when plan A fell apart, seamlessly with zero personal issues. I wish everyone could go through this program. We'd all be so better off

This is a beautiful place. Make sure you use the tour guide, a male blonde tabby named Bamboo. Great for kids of all ages. Serene.

I've gotten an Heirloom Apple tree from their annual veggie sale. It's beautiful. Love kids learning how to grow their own food!

Last week school started locking Berryman gate 24/7. Sign says locked evenings but it's been locked morning, noon, & night ever since signs went up. Thanks for *not* being a good neighbor!

Educational garden with a variety of plants. Home for bees, chickens, ducks, and occasionally goats. Great place for gatherings.

Its a wonderful experience for young people to learn how to cook. Good food from a graden and animals thats around us everyday supplies

Originally gave 5 stars but on my second visit with my pup I was told, "no dogs 'lowed." This place is dead to me now, will never visit again

As always, fantastic. Healthy plants for sale and animals for the children to pet. Worthy cause for school

It's an honor to be the first to review the Edible Schoolyard. A fantastic creation by the great Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse and credited with creating California cuisine. I was lucky enough to get to tour the lush Edible Schoolyard on a class trip. The place is overflowing with fruits and vegetables. Chickens and ducks roam as students collect the eggs to the kitchen on the same property. There, they learn to cook and take home recipes for their families to prepare at home. It's a great initiative that I hope is inspiring others across the nation. Edible education is the future!

the edible school yard is a great place to go to with friends and has really good food. I love it, and i recommend it to someone who wants to try something new

*Note: This is only the bad stuff. This is a school assignment and I have taken the point of view of somebody who doesn't like the yard. Though some of it is true, I didn't mean to be so mean. :) Sorry! Enjoy the criticism. The Edible School Yard is part of King Middle School in Berkeley, CA. It was founded by Alice Waters, the owner of Chez Panisse. So it should be amazing, right? Wrong. I'm a student there at King. I understand how people would love it from a distance, but when you are the one who's doing the cultivating and you are the one actually down on your knees getting dirty for something you might not even USE? Where's the justice people?!? Sure, the teachers are nice, but can't they come up with something interesting to do? Really, I've cultivated almost EVERY SINGLE TIME. Ever heard of originality? Come on, at least have us use some imagination and plan out a bed or something. And when we're walking through, we're not allowed to pick ANYTHING. Hello? WE MADE THE STUFF!!!!!!!!!!! Give us some credit! If I made my own garden I would be able to eat everything in it. Footnote: We can't eat it, except for in the kitchen. And even then, you might not be the class who eats it. ???? Again, I state: Where's the justice?!? The kitchen is much better than the garden, but only when we make something good. And what's up with the vegetarian nonsense? This is not the cheeseboard. At the Cheeseboard, vegetarian pizza actually tastes GOOD. And the rice? Brown rice? Really? Just kill a chicken thats lying around in their cage and make WHITE rice, then we can have chicken and rice. Mmm, what a change. TASTES GOOD. Hey, cooking teachers, hear that? That's the sound of an actually good dish. The best part? Scallion pancakes. But guess what? I DIDN'T EAT IT. Even though I asked a gazillion times, we still didn't make it. And what was the substitution? Salad. What the heck? I had salad every single time last year! Booooooooring. Tastes terrible, boring and whats up with the broccoli in the salad? Really? In short, the Edible Schoolyard CAN be okay--but more often than not is not good at all.

I am a King student and every week i go to Kitchen every week. It is by far my favorite class and i look forward to it every week. Last Friday my class went to kitchen, when we walked in we saw laid out on the table: eggs, cheese, corn chips, cilantro, onions, tomatoes, and peppers. I immediately thought chilequiles (which is a mexican egg dish using tortilla chips.) first our teacher goes around and asks us what job we want to do and we decide. some people cook the eggs and some fry the peppers. In the end of the class we set the table and eat. The meal was delicious but the peppers weren't quite salted enough. The eggs were cooked very well, but there was not as much cheese as i would have liked. There was a salsa to go with the eggs made from tomatoes grown in the King garden which was so fabulous that it didn't even need salt. Over all the meal was good and the kitchen is great, the "no-meat-thing" is annoying but there are lots of good vegetarian dishes. the best thing is that its a different meal everytime.