Get to know our 2016 Summer Garden Management team! Valeria Lake Tell us about yourself: Greetings! My name is Valeria Lake, originating from the great state of Florida and coming to you by way of Atlanta, Georgia (I’m a traveler :)). I am currently about to begin my junior year at The Florida State University … Read more
Get to know our Summer 2016 Office Interns! Sophie Glass Tell us about yourself: Originally from Marietta, Georgia, I currently attend school at the University of Georgia for Anthropology and Biology. I first worked with CPF as a high school intern through a magnet senior internship and research capstone program, where I assembled a semester-long … Read more
By Captain Planet Foundation Summer Garden Management team member Suzie Pope Frederich Buechner (Wishful Thinking) said that your vocation is found in the place where your greatest joy meets with the world’s greatest need. For many years I found these two things were very separate. I went away to college, like many of my peers, to … Read more
How Do You Grow a Community? Plant a School GardenPosted: July 14By Marlon Manuel Community gardens are kid cool, even during the swelter of summer. Summer tending of more than 210 gardens at metro Atlanta schools lets students and teachers maintain their outdoor “classrooms” and cultivate a culture where community is revered, curiosity is rewarded and … Read more
CPF was a proud funder and supporter of this years Mayor’s Fund for London City Pitch program. On July 13th, our Executive Director, Leesa Carter-Jones, joined an expert panel of judges who chose the best youth-driven environmental projects, created and pitched by students. “We are so thrilled to be a part of this great program. City Pitch … Read more
Grantee: New Foundations Charter School (NFCS) –Philadelphia, PAProject Title: NFCS School Composting Project Grant Description: Students have learned first hand what composting is, how they can do it, and the impact it has in the garden’s overall health. The school’s teachers are engaged in lesson planning that exposes students on the do’s and don’ts of composting and the study of … Read more
Shanté ChaneyProject Learning Garden schools:Garden Hills Elementary, APSHumphries Elementary, APSFeldwood Elementary/Pre K, Fulton What is your motivation to work with school gardens?I think that knowing how to grow your own food is basic knowledge for EVERYONE because we ALL eat! So I strongly believe working with students and building/ maintaining school gardens is so important … Read more
Captain Planet Foundation FoodCorps service member, Summer Ladd explains her new initiative at a Project Learning Garden school: I’m hosting a “free farmers market” at Clarkdale Elementary twice a week in the afternoon, where families of the school can stop by anytime between 3-6pm to pick up garden produce to take home. The families and school … Read more
Grantee: Academe of the Oaks High School – Decatur, GAProject Title: Edible Forest Garden at Academe of the Oaks High School Identifying the Obstacles to Environmental Education: About a quarter of an acre wooded area adjacent to the school’s organic vegetable garden was overgrown with invasive plants including English ivy, poison ivy and green briar. This area was … Read more
Grantee: Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Inc. – Atlanta, GAProject Title: Lake Lanier and West Point Lake Floating Classroom Identifying the Obstacles to Environmental Education:Chattahoochee Riverkeeper (CRK) created an on-the-water education program in 2000 to provide an opportunity for students to make the connection between the river that supplies their drinking water and their daily lives and to learn on the water … Read more