Seeds of change: Local organizations team-up to bring new life to school gardens - 11 Alive

SOUTH FULTON, Ga. — As our ‘new normal’ stretches towards its fourth month, the need for consistent food access of local families around the metro Atlanta area persists.

While public schools have essentially been ‘out of session’ as far as the buildings are concerned since March, some local non-profits felt that it was time to take certain food access strategies back to class.

Project Learning Garden is the initiative of Captain Planet Foundation (CPF), a local public charity and grant-making foundation originally created by Atlanta’s own media mogul himself, Ted Turner back in 1991.

Based on the popular, critically-acclaimed 90’s animated series, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, the foundation parted ways with the media conglomerate in 2002 to become a 501(c)3 under the stated mission to engage and empower young people to be problem-solvers for the planet.

Due to the impact that COVID has had on the healthy food access around the city, Captain Planet Foundation decided to partner up with Food Well Alliance to revive a couple of their innovative programs: a public school community garden program called Project Giving Gardens.

With the Project Giving Gardens program reinstated, over 100 community gardens will be prepared to become fully functioning mini-gardens under the direct supervision of some of the area’s most renowned urban farmers. Ten farmers to date, all recruited through CPF’s partnership with Food Well Alliance.

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