Good Shepherd Farming Education and Outreach

24/11/2024

This was an amazing day to work with a great group of kids. Thank you Stephanie!

24/09/2024

The kids had such a great time and we enjoyed getting to hang out with them!

13/09/2024

Farmer K had fun playing in the dirt with Red Top Middle School 6th grade with Mr Conway's STEM class.

Thank you to Vego Garden for donating a raised bed! The kids had a great time filling it using Hugelkulture methods including kitchen scraps from the school kitchen composting program with K & T Farms.

Afterward they got to enjoy a fresh Georgia Rattlesnake Watermelon grown by K and T.

This bed will have a low tunnel installed to allow the students to grow lettuce and other veggies through the winter for their school lunch room.

Bartow County School Nutrition Bartow County Schools Coosa River Soil & Water Conservation District Georgia Grown Georgia Organics Georgia School Nutrition Program

29/08/2024

We❤️Compost

27/07/2024

Farmer K had a great time building a hugelkulture bed with the kids at Boys & Girls Clubs of Bartow County, Inc. in Adairsville. Thank you to Vego Garden for donating a new raised bed for their program! The kids had a great time and are excited to play in the dirt!

Boys & Girls Clubs of America
K & T Farms at Bramblewood and Hollydale UMC

16/03/2024

We had a great time at Clear Creek Elementary School for their school garden wellness event. We built and filled lots of raised beds using huglekulture that the kids will plant seeds in this week.

K & T Farms at Bramblewood and Hollydale UMC
Bartow County Schools
Bartow County School Nutrition
Keep Bartow Beautiful

13/03/2024

Thank you to Martin's Wrecker Service for taking the time to bring us this roll-off full of fresh carrots!!!

When they picked them up they hated to see it go to waste in the landfill so they made some calls and eventually were put in touch with us. These carrots will make beautiful compost and give back to the food cycle instead of being buried under layers of trash. 😁🥕

07/03/2024

Chicken Club!

We had a great time with students at Cloverleaf Elementary School. We taught them how to make chicken enrichment treat toys using vegetables, fruits, and flowers and decorated the chicken run with them. Then we gave a much needed beak trim to one of the hens and surprised the club with some new feathered additions! The students did a great job working on the enrichment activities for the hens and even had some great ideas for swings and see-saws to add to the run to keep the hens entertained.

K & T Farms at Bramblewood and Hollydale UMC
Bartow County Schools
Bartow County School Nutrition

05/03/2024

Blueberries!!!
In addition to our tomato plants, we added blueberry plants to our spring plant fundraiser!

Plants are $15 each, we have several varieties to pick from:
DeSoto, Pink Lemonade, Powder blue, Galaxy, Sharpblue, Robeson, Misty, Gupton, and Pearl

Funds will go towards supplies for the Compost for K12 and school garden projects!

K & T Farms at Bramblewood and Hollydale UMC
Bartow County Schools
Bartow County School Nutrition

28/02/2024

Today we got to visit with Cloverleaf Elementary School Chicken Club to do a health check on their chickens and talk with the students about nutrition and environmental enrichment for the chickens. The students have been doing a great job keeping their girls clean and healthy. We can't wait to come back to Chicken Club!

K & T Farms at Bramblewood and Hollydale UMC
Bartow County Schools
Bartow County School Nutrition

10/02/2024

Don't forget to pre-order your plants! We've extended pre-orders until Feb 29th!

Good Shepherd Farm Education is hosting a fundraising event to benefit our School Feeding program and Farm to Foodbank programs! These programs collect cafeteria scraps from Bartow schools which are then transported to a local composting site for processing; the compost is used to grow vegetables and fruits for the schools and local food banks.

Pre-order for 2024 Fundraiser by filling out the google survey (https://forms.gle/jZ8GPPQSgZVcVgBv8). Donation for pre-order must be received by January 31st to ensure enough plants are available. A limited amount of additional plants will be available as first come-first serve. Please pay via venmo, check, or paypal (links below).

Plants will be in 4.5" pots; $8 per plant. Available for pick-up in April-May. We will have pick-ups available at the farm in Rydal, and meetups in Cartersville and Adairsville.

All donations are tax deductible

Any questions, please email [email protected]

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=RGCWFQB3CPZNL

https://venmo.com/u/GoodShepFarmEd

01/02/2024

25/01/2024

ISO: Our non-profit is working on a composting program for the Bartow County School system to reduce their waste and produce fresh veggies for the students. We are in need of a few food grade IBC totes. If anyone has any available they would like to donate we would love the assistance, all donations are tax deductible.

Also needed: a regular source of wood mulch or sawdust to mix with the food scraps.

01/01/2024

Good Shepherd Farm Education is hosting a fundraising event to benefit our School Feeding program and Farm to Foodbank programs! These programs collect cafeteria scraps from Bartow schools which are then transported to a local composting site for processing; the compost is used to grow vegetables and fruits for the schools and local food banks.

Pre-order for 2024 Fundraiser by filling out the google survey (https://forms.gle/jZ8GPPQSgZVcVgBv8). Donation for pre-order must be received by January 31st to ensure enough plants are available. A limited amount of additional plants will be available as first come-first serve. Please pay via venmo, check, or paypal (links below).

Plants will be in 4.5" pots; $8 per plant. Available for pick-up in April-May. We will have pick-ups available at the farm in Rydal, and meetups in Cartersville and Adairsville.

All donations are tax deductible

Any questions, please email [email protected]

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=RGCWFQB3CPZNL

https://venmo.com/u/GoodShepFarmEd

18/12/2023

Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Ephesians 3:20

How true these words are! It is amazing to see the transformation one year can bring. In just a few months we turned this hard patch of dirt from an overgrown soccer field full of brush and weeds into a bountiful oasis that produced over 2000lbs of food for the local communities! The vision for this program has been in our hearts for so long it is humbling to see it come to fruition.

As the year comes to a close, we are so thankful for the congregation at HollydaleUMC and Rev. Hull who believed in our calling to feed people. We are thankful for the hands who helped plant seeds and to harvest, and those that came to the markets to support our mission so that we can continue for another year.

For this new year we continue to pray for a community to grow around the garden so that we have many hands and feet serving like Christ. We welcome anyone to come join us in planting, harvesting, or in our special projects as we expand the Giving Garden.

We give all the glory to God and know that he will accomplish infinitely more than we have dreamed of for this program!