The garden at Marietta Middle School now bursts with sage, lemon balm, peppers and other herbs, but the bright space in the building’s center was not always this way.
Its impressive growth is due in part to Compost Connectors, a partnership between Food Well Alliance and five metro Atlanta public school systems.
Food Well’s Compost Connectors program featured in documentary that covers landfills and the things we throw away.
Read MoreComposting isn’t anything new for Baggett Elementary School third-grader Maya Terrazas. But using it as an educational tool toward the end of the recent school year was a bit different.
Read MoreThere is nothing like growing and harvesting your own fruits and veggies. Those skills can be life-changing, especially when you live in a low-income area.
Read MoreAt Lovin Elementary in Lawrenceville, kids know the food they don’t eat can be used again.
Read MoreLilburn Elementary School fifth-grader Cynthia Turner had an unconventional reaction when she learned a food audit revealed an average of 600 pounds of food is wasted at the school each day because it goes unused.
Read MoreThe Food Well Alliance is one of four organizations to receive at $10,000 donation Delta Community Credit Union (DCCU)in June. The donation will go toward their Compost Connectors Program, which teaches students how to contribute to healthier communities by engaging with every stage of the compost cycle.
Read MoreThe Food Well Alliance is one of four organizations to receive significant financial support from Cobb-based Delta Community Credit Union in June.
Read MoreCompost Connector students from Booker T. Washington High School are featured in GPB's Let’s Go Enviro, a brand new digital video series that is available to teachers and students across Georgia.
Read MoreSee how the students at Marietta Middle school turning over 750 lbs of food scrapes into compost. Marietta Middle school’s composting, led by Michelle Gambon, is part of Food Well Alliance’s Compost Connectors program.
Read MoreHuddled over a black, plastic compost tower, Marietta Middle School students churned dirt inside a vessel with a crank, aerating the soil to help the organisms move around and break down the muck.
Read MoreCompost Connectors from Lovin Elementary School (aka The Bucket Brigade) talk about collecting food scraps from the school cafeteria to make compost for their school garden.
Read MoreThrough the Food Well Alliance Compost Connectors program and assistance from Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful, STEM students at Lovin Elementary School are cutting down on food waste and learning about healthy soil.
Read MoreStudents at Marietta Middle School collected 1,035 pounds of food waste throughout the school year and turned it into food-enriching compost for garden beds.
Read MoreFood Well Alliance is working with Lovin Elementary School and Discovery High School to teach students at the schools about how compost is made.
Read MoreFood Well Alliance: We are connecting organizations that are working to make metro Atlanta's local food system resilient, including production, processing, distribution, consumption and recovery.
The creation of Food Well Alliance was made possible through funding from the founding benefactor, the James M. Cox Foundation, and through the vision of Jim Kennedy, chair of Cox Enterprises, and Bill Bolling, founder of the Atlanta Community Food Bank. Together, they saw an opportunity to build healthier communities across metro Atlanta by supporting and connecting members of our local food movement. Today, we support more than 300 community gardens, urban farms and orchards in the Atlanta region.
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