We pulled up in Farmer D’s truck to a lost corner for a site visit (where we look at a place and see what can be done there). I’m not just calling it that–that’s actually its name, Lost Corner Preserve. It’s located on a twenty-two acre family homestead preserved by the Trust for Public Land [...]
Category Archives: school garden
Children’s Healthcare Garden at Scottish Rite
Every week we tend to this special garden we built last year as part of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Strong 4 Life obesity awareness campaign. It is so rewarding to see the children at the hospital and their families out there picking flowers, eating veggies and having lunch there enjoying the healing space. We just [...]
Planting with the children from the Nicholas House
This is from the planting I did yesterday with the children from the Nicholas House. We donated a raised bed garden to them and led an educational planting activity. It was great! Credit for the collage goes to Pattie Baker who planted hydroponic gardens for the children to take home. The teens are volunteers with [...]
Back to School and Back in the Garden!
by Kevin Frazier School is back in session, and schools across Georgia and the country are picking back up with their garden projects. School gardens are an exciting and stimulating opportunity to integrate all types of classroom curricula in an outdoor environment, where kids can see firsthand how applicable math, science, social studies, language [...]
Torah Day School Garden
Today we planted the gardens at Torah Day School in Atlanta with the help of all 350 children. Each class came out for about 20 minutes starting at 9am and non-stop until after 3pm. The children all learned how to plant seeds, transplants, potatoes and garlic as Farmer D demonstrated techniques in the community tended [...]
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