What a successful summer! 3 interns and 5 FoodCorps service members In total, they visited 50 different schools 227 separate times Food harvested went to various people and groups Atlanta Community Foodbank Clifton Sanctuary Mission Oxford Commons Cooperative Kids at local summer camps Local community members
2015 -2016 FoodCorps Recap: 5 service members 14 schools 28,818 student activities 339 pounds of produce harvested from school gardens served to students 22 taste tests 528 volunteers What the kids are saying: “I just want to live in the soil!” “This garden made me addicted to kale” “We should spend more time in the … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
How ‘Captain Planet’ Turned Kids GreenPosted: August 18By Jake Rossen / Mental Floss Sometime in the late 1980s, Ted Turner came to a conclusion about Scooby-Doo: It didn’t have much of a message. Nor did Yogi Bear, or The Flintstones, or any of Hanna-Barbera’s multiple animated properties that Turner had purchased the rights to air as … Read more
Welcome back to school! Summer is such a brief window of time, and there are few days even during the summer when the school is completely empty. However, for most regions, June and July are bountiful months for the garden. This is when the big, juicy, sweet summer veggies (or botanically-speaking, fruits, since they contain … Read more
Captain Planet Foundation received the Wings Across the Americas Urban Communities in Conservation Award for participation in the Greater Atlanta Pollinator Partnership (GAPP) coalition in recognition of providing pollinator habitat plants to all Project Learning Garden schools. The GAPP is a coalition of private and public partners that works with the communities in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. … Read more