Druid Hills Middle School Gardens

 Druid HIlls Middle School has 8 teacher gardens that exposes students to growing healthy, pesticide-free fruits and vegetables.  Through our Environmental club, science enrichment classes, and 6th grade Earth Science classes, students have experienced planting, maintaining, harvesting, research, and of course eating healthy food that they have grown.  

Students also help with composting to amend our soil.  This year we did our first food donation to the Atlanta Mission shelter that helps to feed 250 women and children daily.

We also use our two pollinator gardens as a source of learning and inspiration in our outdoor classroom area.  

Our students may come to school with emotional and social issues that interfere with learning; we have found that our gardens can be a source of healing and joy to help students rediscover their youth.

We also partner with ACE, Alliance for Climate Change.