Thomasville Heights Elementary School Urban Farm

07/05/2021

A sunflower feast for bees on the Thomasville Heights Elementary School Urban Farm !

07/02/2021

07/01/2021

Apprentices from The Paideia School were back on site today! The focus was on infill planting to replace sweet potato slips that didn't make it due to heat stress, as well as mulching the beds with coastal hay. Things are looking up!

06/30/2021

We were honored and pleased to have a visit yesterday from our neighbor Celeste Lomax, who is the Food Forest Steward at Urban Food Forest at Browns Mill on behalf of Trees Atlanta .

06/29/2021

The tasks this morning is to clear these three beds of w**ds, add compost to them, and plant more sweet potato slips.

06/28/2021

We are giving a big shout out to Tania Herbert of The Paideia School Urban Agriculture Program for helping us reinstall drip irrigation lines after turning and amending our farm beds last week! Our newly planted sweet potato slips are enjoying immediate hydration due to her hard work. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

06/26/2021

We're making progress getting these sweet potato slips into the earth, one plant at a time. Happy Saturday folks!

06/26/2021

How do you eat a rainbow? And why would you even want to? The theme of our June Farm to Home kit explores the beauty and healthy benefits of a colorful plate. This kit includes:
🥕Activity: Rainbow food & healthy bodies

🥦 Activities: Sidewalk chalk veggie games
🍑 Gifts: Sidewalk chalk and temporary tattoo
🥕 Snack: 88 acres bar
🍅 Meet the farmer & veggie card
🌈 Video, sticker and more!

link in bio to purchase!

06/26/2021

The good folks of Food Well Alliance came out to offer the moral and tangible support for the Thomasville Heights Elementary School Urban Farm today. A extra special thanks to the hard working Flannery for light tilling of our beds to mix in soil amendments and w**d eating tall grass on the farm. She's a horticultural superstar in our book!

06/25/2021

Thanks to the help and support from folks like The Paideia School Urban Agriculture Program, Food Well Alliance Community Gardens support program, Purpose Built Schools Atlanta officials and others, we are making great progress in resuscitating the Thomasville Heights Elementary School Urban Farm . Over half our farm beds are now ready for mid-summer planting!

06/25/2021

The Food Well Alliance Community Gardening program is here to help till our beds in preparation for planting, as well as mowing and w**d eating unruly areas of the farm. These folks are life savers for urban gardens and farms throughout metro Atlanta. We're super happy to have them here today!

06/25/2021

Our sweet potato slips (starter plants) have arrived from the farm that grew them in Tennessee! We'll be planting close to 2,000 slips over the next couple of days, hopefully before the heavy rains that are forecasted. We're using sweet potatoes as a cover crop this season, to help enrich the soil and suppress w**d growth in the beds until we are ready to plant fall crops when the Thomasville Heights Elementary School students return. Of course we will also be able to harvest delicious and nutritious sweet potato greens and eventually the tubers (sweet potatoes) along the way and at the end of the season! If you have any time today (Friday) afternoon or Saturday morning to help us plant, please contact the Farmer-Educator Kwabena "Cubby" Nkromo, Farmer Citizen - Food Rebel at 678.499.0309 for more details.

06/24/2021

Our Farmer-Educator Kwabena "Cubby" Nkromo, Farmer Citizen - Food Rebel was treated to a visit by the Assistant Principal of Thomasville Heights Elementary School Ms. Andrea Nunn today! It's always feels great to have interest and support shown to the Thomasville Heights Elementary School Urban Farm by the school's administration. 👍🏾

06/21/2021

Please check out Kwabena Nkromo's latest blog about becoming the Farmer-Educator at Thomasville Heights Elementary School Urban Farm!

On June 1st of 2021, I was hired by Purpose Built Schools of Atlanta (PBSA) as the Farmer-Educator for the Thomasville Heights Elementary…

06/16/2021

FYI!

Ready? Set. Plant!

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Get your okra seeds, sign up, and tune in on Thursday, June 24 at 3PM as we prepare for October Farm to School Month!

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06/15/2021