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Urban Garden Party – Launching the Urban Farm Campaign
You’re invited to an Urban Garden Party! On Wednesday October 16th, 2019 we celebrated the launch of our Urban Farm and community asset on Charleston’s upper peninsula, the Urban Farm at Enston Home. Learn more about our biggest project yet and enjoy a good time with community partners and friends! This event marked a milestone […]
Launching our First Online Series: Green Heart at Home
A Message from The Green Heart Project Executive Director. Our response to COVID- 19 and launching Green Heart at Home. Green Heart Family: Throughout the Charleston community, we are all dealing with the stress and calamity brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our normal lives have been turned upside down. As an organization, The Green […]
Gratitude (plus video!)
by Jesse Blom, Executive Director “How are you?”, they ask.“Busy”, is a common response these days. Maybe followed by, “I can’t handle all of these emails!” or, replace “emails” with “meetings”. The end of the year is coming, and for many of us, that means a heightened sense of overwhelming to-do’s, looming deadlines, and overall […]
9th Annual Harvest Dinner
THANK YOU ALL for making the 9th Annual Harvest Dinner at Mitchell Elementary School such a splashing success. We had over 900 attendees, most of them Green Heart students and their families, and raised over $40,000 for our Farm to School programs! It was a wonderful evening of celebration, featuring BBQ by Jamie Westendorf, and garden-inspired […]
Working Together Across Difference
?? This Spring has already been groundbreaking for our Green Heart programs! ?? During the first week in April, we did something new. We brought two of our programs, our Mitchell Elementary and Sullivan’s Island Elementary STEM programs, together for a work day at the Mitchell urban farm. Third graders from both schools came together […]