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
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