Dole Packaged Foods joins Key Food and CPF to install Project Learning Garden in New York Elementary School

Dole Packaged Foods joins Key Food and Captain Planet Foundation to celebrate Project Learning Garden at PS 354 The Jermaine L. Green STEM Institute of Queens Elementary SchoolPosted: September 27By PR Newswire QUEENS, N.Y., Sept. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Today executives from Key Food, Dole Packaged Foods and the Captain Planet Foundation joined Principal Raeven Askew and … Read more

Three Project Learning garden schools are featured on thenewsstar.com

Let it grow: Three schools get gardensPosted: September 16By Bonnie Bolden How’s it growing? Students at three local elementary schools will get the opportunity to get hands-on gardening experience and learn how to use what is grown as part of the Captain Planet Foundation’s Project Learning Garden. On Friday, volunteers from the Brookshire’s on North … Read more

Project Learning Garden featured in Simply Buckhead Magazine

Diggin’ in the DirtPosted: September 2016By Simply Buckhead There’s something about harvesting the crops they plant that tempts kids at Sarah Smith Elementary School (SRS) in Buckhead to taste vegetables, such as radishes, kale, arugula, beets, turnips and mustard greens, they would likely refuse at home. Read Full Article / Page 21  

Southern Seasons Magazine features Article from CPF Board Chair Laura Turner Seydel

Feeding the FuturePosted: September 2016By Laura Turner Seydel / Southern Seasons Magazine We’ve all heard the saying “You are what you eat.” If you eat unhealthy foods, you’ll inevitably be unhealthy. I’d like to take it one step further. It’s not just what food you eat, but how it ended up on your plate. Read Full Article

Atlanta Schools, Join the Plastic Film Challenge of 2016 in honor of Kids Recycle Day!

We invite you to take part in our efforts to raise environmental awareness at your school. Live Thrive Atlanta’s Center for Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM), in collaboration with Atlanta Public Schools, the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, and Captain Planet, brings you the Plastic Film Challenge of 2016 in honor of Kids Recycle Day! The … Read more