Last month I wrote about the Dunwoody Community Garden, and commented on my surprise at its seemingly exponential rate of growth and improvement. I also promised to check out Dunwoody High School’s (DHS) current involvement with the community garden, and I can finally deliver on that one:

Grow Dunwoody is a community enterprise designed to bring gardens directly to Dunwoody’s schools. According to Danny Kanso, a senior at DHS, the purpose of the program is

to integrate hands-on learning into science, wellness, and special education, to produce renewable classroom and community resources, and to instill sustainable practices and values within our student body.

When I was on the phone with Danny recently, he explained that students and professors from the nearby Georgia Perimeter College would soon be arriving at DHS freshman biology courses to help with the installation of the garden plots in the DHS courtyard. For the rest of the year, they would facilitate the high school students’ garden maintenance, scientific analysis, and use of the organic produce. This program is not limited to DHS, however: seven other institutions (six elementary schools and one middle school) are also going to be involved in the Grow Dunwoody organization, which is completely student-led and aided by various city-wide groups like the City of Dunwoody Sustainability Commission and the Georgia Environmental Protection Watershed Protection Branch.

I encourage you to browse the Grow Dunwoody website and follow a truly impressive initiative founded and run by DHS students that will hopefully educate Dunwoody’s K-12 on the benefits of organic growth and renewable resources.