Thornwell School for the Arts

The Hartsville Community Garden is located in downtown Hartsville and is free and open to the community. It is completely staffed by volunteers. Last year, garden volunteers identified a need for food/nutrition education for students. Volunteers led a program at the Community Garden for a Boy Scout troop and realized how little students knew about where food comes from. Volunteers are starting an outreach program to work one-on-one with students in an after-school program to create an on-site school garden at Thornwell
School for the Arts. The school garden will be planted and maintained by the students with weekly educational programs provided by the volunteers. The goals are to expose students to the growing process, how food gets to the grocery store, the importance of protecting the environment and encourage responsibility through the care of the garden.