School Field Trip Packages
IMPORTANT: The Middlebrook Center will be unable to offer any field trip this fall. Field trips will resume after December in the new year. If you have any question please email and ask.We apologize for any inconvenience.

Bring your class to Middlebrook Center’s ELSEE teaching garden at
76 Race St, San Jose, CA 95126.
Our ELSEE teaching team will design a lesson plan based on grade level, number of students, and teacher requests. Your students will have a fun and educational hands-on experience in our learning laboratory and gain knowledge about sustainability, urban gardening, and environmental science!
Though we’d love to have as many students in our garden as possible, our teachers and facilities are better suited to groups of about 20 students at one time.
$100 flat rate for up to 20 students
$5 per each student over 20 students
$8 per each student over 30
All payments are tax-deductible donations to the California Native Garden Foundation and will be used for the ELSEE teaching garden program in public schools.
- Vegetables harvested from our garden and prepared in our outdoor kitchen
- Grain of the teacher’s request (e.g. rice, quinoa, couscous, etc.)
- Treat prepared made with alternative and/or native flours
- Garden vegetables $4
- Vegetables and grain $6
- Homemade treat $4
- Complete lunch $8
Take a look at past field trips and summer camp!
- Petting one of our garden chickens.
- It’s really cold, but we’re still learning about plants!
- Sampling the vegetation
- Start of a fun new day in the Nature Discovery Camp.
- Teaching a field trip at Middlebrook center!
- Delilah cuddles with one of the chickens.
- The campers enjoy a delicious and healthy lunch that has been freshly harvested.
- Ivanna feeds the fish in our new mini aquaponics system.
- The internship team expertly prepares an amazing lunch each day.
- Our summer campers in the garden… ready for work and fun!
- ELSEE Nature Discovery Camp
- Mathia spends time with the garden dog, Lily.
I have a group of 88 2nd graders and 12 adults. Can you accommodate all of us at the same time? What would be the total costs? What time are the two hour classes? Is there a place where students could eat the lunch they pack? Cannot afford to pay for lunch.
Thank you,
Nancy
Hi Nancy,
for more questions please email becca@middlebrookcenter.com
There is something we can work out so that we can have your 88 students!
You can also call 408-292-9993