In its first formal program year, the farm reached 263 young people. The next generation of growers, eaters, and food-system builders is learning on these five acres.
Interns, youth jobs, and the emerging Farm Workforce Pathway.
Field trips, service days, and classroom tie-ins at Price, Carver, and Slater.
FoodCorps educators, KSU students, and community partners — multipliers.
Summer after summer, young people have held paid roles on this farm — 43 in 2025, including FFA students running real agribusiness projects in the beds. The farm built the partnerships that fund those roles — Kennesaw State, Good Food Green City, Oakland's Roots Academy — and is developing a workforce pathway of its own. A real wage, and a real apprenticeship in growing and selling food.
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.
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. Funding-adjacent partners Black Table LLC and Focused Growth helped carry the work.
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.
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 a fellow, sponsor a cohort, or bring your school out to the farm. The workforce pathway grows with support.
