Students at the new Virginia-Highland Elementary School spent a recent morning preparing garden beds and planting seeds for their new learning garden.
The garden installation event on November 9 included the planting of radishes and carrots; celery, collard greens and lettuce seedlings; and also new blueberry plants, and some rosemary and mums. Funding for the garden beds, seeds, plants and tools was provided to the school through a Learning Garden Project grant from the Captain Planet Foundation and Dematican Atlanta-based logistics and automation provider.
The learning garden grant is the first grant awarded to Virginia-Highland Elementary School, which opened this year with more than 500 students from Morningside and Springdale Park elementary schools. The grant was written by STEAM teachers Young Ah Rhee and Jessica Correa.
Principal Terry Harness said the learning garden will help students understand the importance of sustainability, gardening, harvesting and giving back to the community.
On hand for the event were Atlanta City Council members Alex Wan and Matt Westmoreland and Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education member Katie Howard.
Garden Learning Project is a holistic program that provides schools with the essential elements to establish and support their garden-based learning programs, according to the Captain Planet Foundation. There are more than 600 Project Learning Gardens in schools in 41 states.
Schools with learning gardens “report that students benefit from learning about food and science, along with social studies, math and language arts,” according to the Captain Planet Foundation.
“They can expand their palates, taste healthy foods, and learn about the origins of what they grow,” the foundation’s representatives said.
Dematic has partnered with the Captain Planet Foundation for the learning garden as part of its Global Community Outreach Program. The program supports building stronger communities by educating students about the environment and sustainability, said Meraj Anas, senior vice president of Global Execution and Sustainability.
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