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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 […]
Practicing CITIZENSHIP
* This post is part of a series on the valuable character traits our students practice in the garden. An elder friend of mine once told me that planting a garden is one of the most hopeful things we can do in life. We have no idea how the weather will turn, or what type […]
Practicing GRATITUDE
Practicing Green Heart Gratitude In their Green Heart gardens, our students learn to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat fruits and vegetables. Acquiring these “hard skills” is important, as it helps to build confidence, knowledge, and awareness around their own health and the health of the environment. At the same time, our students are learning […]
Dig In! It’s Sweet Potato Season
Sweet. Potatoes. The famed crop of the Green Heart Project gardens! Sweet, savory, creamy — delicious — any way you slice ’em. Follow the journey of this native tuber all the way from the farm to the bellies of our Green Heart Buddies. Back in May, our programs and garden teams planted sweet potato slips […]