Composting isn’t anything new for Baggett Elementary School third-grader Maya Terrazas. But using it as an educational tool toward the end of the recent school year was a bit different.

There is nothing like growing and harvesting your own fruits and veggies. Those skills can be life-changing, especially when you live in a low-income area.

Lilburn Elementary School fifth-grader Cynthia Turner had an unconventional reaction when she learned a food audit revealed an average of 600 pounds of food is wasted at the school each day because it goes unused.

The Food Well Alliance is one of four organizations to receive at $10,000 donation Delta Community Credit Union (DCCU)in June. The donation will go toward their Compost Connectors Program, which teaches students how to contribute to healthier communities by engaging with every stage of the compost cycle.

The Food Well Alliance is one of four organizations to receive significant financial support from Cobb-based Delta Community Credit Union in June.

Compost Connector students from Booker T. Washington High School are featured in GPB's Let’s Go Enviro, a brand new digital video series that is available to teachers and students across Georgia.

See how the students at Marietta Middle school turning over 750 lbs of food scrapes into compost. Marietta Middle school’s composting, led by Michelle Gambon, is part of Food Well Alliance’s Compost Connectors program.

Huddled over a black, plastic compost tower, Marietta Middle School students churned dirt inside a vessel with a crank, aerating the soil to help the organisms move around and break down the muck.

Compost Connectors from Lovin Elementary School (aka The Bucket Brigade) talk about collecting food scraps from the school cafeteria to make compost for their school garden.

Through the Food Well Alliance Compost Connectors program and assistance from Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful, STEM students at Lovin Elementary School are cutting down on food waste and learning about healthy soil.

Food Well Alliance is working with Lovin Elementary School and Discovery High School to teach students at the schools about how compost is made.

This film examines the issues around food deserts and food insecurities in the Atlanta Metropolitan area. Over the course of 12 weeks, the YMA team met with students from H.O.P.E to New Heights through Zoom sessions and learned about documentary filmmaking, the elements of story, interviewing techniques, and the basics of researching a topic.