Paideia Urban Ag

Paideia Urban Agriculture Program

Through our Urban Ag program, Paideia students, teachers, and families regularly engage in learning about the intersectional relationships between growing crops, eating, recycling waste, and the related nutritional, environmental, and community benefits. Our current farm site is located in East Atlanta on the grounds of Atlanta Mennonite Church.

Urban Ag at Paideia serves as an educational platform to support the school’s curriculum and implement our Framework of Values. Students are at the center of everything we do, and they learn about more than just where their food comes from; our curriculum has a core focus on food justice and the interdependence of all living things, from the microbes in the soil to our local and global food systems. 

We cultivate less than one acre of land for food crops and steward two acres in total in a sustainable, Certified Naturally Grown way. We use evidence-based practices to grow healthy, nutritionally-dense foods while minimizing the impact we have on the planet.

More than two-thirds of what we harvest (totalling tons of pounds annually) is given away via strong relationships with community partners who distribute it to our neighbors experiencing food insecurity.