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Atlanta Farm to School presents the Edgewood Farm crew at the Coan Middle School Edible Schoolyard. This program allows students from the neighborhood to learn to grow, harvest and sell foods on a 1/2 acre of land in the city. Kyla Zaro-Moore manages the programs providing the students the opportunity to understand the importance of sustainably grown foods.

To learn more, visit the Atlanta Farm to School website here

Based on the seed-to-table learning model initiated by Alice Waters in Berkeley, CA, The Pittsburgh Edible Schoolyard integrates garden activities into the regular classroom curriculum to improve young students’ eating habits, invest students in their school communities, and enhance students’ academic performance.

Now in its fourth year in the Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS), The Edible Schoolyard is the fruit of collaboration between PPS personnel, teachers, parents, community members, and the non-profit organization Grow Pittsburgh.

In this podcast we speak with the Director of Education for Grow Pittsburgh, Joshua Burnett. To many young Pittsburgh students, he is better known as “Farmer Josh”.

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