1984-85 Organic garden and farm, founded by teachers Bill Overton and Jana Littlefield,  started as a tool for teaching students about like cycles, scientific observation, responsibility for living things, (including animals) and other values and academic goals including hands on practice of arts, mathematics and social studies. The farm was a unique facility that include a vegetable garden, an orchard, a pumpkin patch, a native with a pond, a green house, a large gathering a

COMMENTS MADE BY SUSAN HAHN ON THE OCCASION OF DEDICATING THE MULTIPURPOSE ROOM TO THE MEMORY OF DON BARTEL JUNE 8, 1984 When I first met...

As told by Jim Mathiott.

The 1976 PAUSD Board's decision to designate the its first school of choice grew out of the era's wider cultural debate.

Teacher Joyce Bryson shares her recollections of Ohlone for the 20th Anniversary.

Newspaper articles archived by the Palo Alto Historical Association

Jim sends his regrets on not attending the 20th anniversary Spring Picnic.

The Ohlone Pumpkin Patch (2005-2006) View Original Document Kim Prescott and I were approached by farm parents to pursue an Environmental...

Meredith and Dan Miller Vostrejs (RPCV E. Caribbean 95-97, they met in the Peace Corps) bought supplies and Dan outlined the map. The...

Teacher Pat Robinson's recollections on the occasion of Ohlone's 20th anniversary.

The Ohlone Farm: Twenty Years of Outdoor Learning 1984/1985 - 2004/2005

Timeline of Ohlone Farm History by science teacher and Ohlone parent Tanya Buxton.

This historic 'origins' essay written in 1994 outlines how the Ohlone concept came about in 1971.

Minutes from the June 21, 1971 School Board Meeting in which James Mathiott, Principal of Ohlones School, discusses the "Ohlones Plan".

Links to articles on Ohlone from around the school's 25th anniversary.

Ohlone School: History and Philosophy written in 1993.

Proposal to build the Farm from Principal Jim Mathiott to Superintendent Dr. Newman Walker.

Video and Photos of the 2010 Lunar New Year celebration. Email summary of the parent planning that went into the event.

This calendar of events from 1971 through 1976 describes the discovery of and transition to an ‘open education.’

Ohlone Brochure for interested parents from the mid 2010s.