Working with Captain Planet Makes Me More Joyful

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

Learn about our Summer garden management program

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 ED, Leesa Carter-Jones helps London choose best youth-led environmental projects

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

School Composting Project in Philadelphia

Outdoor garden

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

Get To Know FoodCorps Service Member Shante Chaney & Miranda Watrous

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

Free farmers market at Project Learning Garden school creates parent and community engagement

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

Edible Forest Garden in Decatur Georgia

forested garden with raised and in-ground beds

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

Lake Lanier and West Point Lake Floating Classroom in Atlanta, GA

students aboard Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Floating Classroom doing water quality testing on Lake Lanier in Georgia

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

CPF grantee removes invasive plants in pollinator habitat

Nature Gen Recent Trail ActivitiesPosted: July 7By Blue Ridge Leader Thanks to a grant funded in part by the Captain Planet Foundation, The Nature Generation, along with Boy Scout Troop 961 and the Virginia Native Plant Society removed invasive plants that were choking out native plants in the pollinator habitat at the Trail and replaced … Read more