Real wages, real harvest, real crew, on five acres in Historic South Atlanta. Young people learn by growing food, and by selling it.
The next generation of growers, eaters, and food-system builders is learning on these five acres.
FoodCorps educators, KSU students, and community partners (multipliers).
South Atlanta Farms hosted the City of Atlanta's Sustainability Ambassadors graduation in April 2026 — ~40 students finishing a cohort on growing food, stewarding land, and building wellness in their own neighborhoods.
The farm was the campus.
Young people have held paid roles on this farm, growing food alongside the crew, through partnerships with Kennesaw State, Good Food Green City, and Oakland's Roots Academy, alongside partners like FoodCorps. Now the farm is developing a workforce pathway of its own: a paid internship model where students learn and grow, farm first.
Everyone here gets their hands in the soil. The pathway is built to be a launch point (into food work, into college, into whatever's next).
The farm doubles as a training site. FoodCorps used SAF as a lab for its Winter Workshop — nixtamalization, pollinator lessons, harvest-data habits. KSU students run Saturday workdays and help shape the Farm Manager Rubric. The Historic Oakland Foundation's Roots Academy has been out for a workday too.
Knowledge stays in the neighborhood, and spreads from it.
Farm interns ran a market at Four Corners Park, selling what they grew straight to neighbors. Their harvest, their sales, their market.
Second graders came out to the farm for a day built around pollinators, learning how bees and blooms keep the beds growing.
The farm is also building a partnership with Villages at Carver, so neighbors there can get fresh produce from these beds.
These aren't advocacy lines — they're the national picture on farm-to-school programs. What's specific to Historic South Atlanta is the stakes.
dietary-outcome studies show students eating more fruits and vegetables.
academic-outcome studies show measurable student improvements.
science-achievement scores for 3rd–5th graders in school-gardening programs.
students reached across 12,300 schools by USDA's Farm-to-School program.
Day camps, hands-on workshops, community events, and school field days are in the works — for students and for neighbors of every age — with registration opening as each one is set. Tell us you're interested and you'll hear first.
Hands-in-the-soil days for young people — growing, harvesting, cooking what the beds give, and yes, the chickens.
Gardening and growing skills for neighbors of every age, taught right from the beds by the people who work them.
Bring a class out. Students from Price, Carver, Slater, ANCS, and Humphreys Elementary have already learned on this farm — yours can too.
The kids the farm feeds are the kids the farm teaches. That's not a coincidence of geography. It's the model.— South Atlanta Farms
Fund the farm crew, sponsor a cohort, or bring your school out to the farm. The workforce pathway grows with support.
