The Powell Elementary GT Magnet garden and outdoor classroom is a stimulating space for play, interactive learning and environmental education.
Sixth Sun is building a garden and outdoor classroom at an elementary school in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Powell GT Magnet garden and outdoor classroom is an educational space and part of our initiative to create a local food system that is based on community empowerment through education.
The stakeholders of this project include teachers, administrators, parents, students, and neighbors, all of whom have been involved since the conception of this project.
The outcome will be a stimulating place for play, learning, and environmental education. We are creating a space where kids can learn about and interact with their food source. We also want to embed lessons on the importance of environmental stewardship, individual responsibility and impact.
As this project succeeds it will act as a springboard to broader community interaction and involvement, including the potential of a community garden, more home gardens, demand of more local produce availability and community wide unification.
The Sixth Sun mission is to empower communities to secure their own food and energy sources.Our aim is to create a local food system that is community owned.
We are an organization dedicated to fundamentally addressing malnutrition and poverty. Sixth Sun promotes a sustainable, community-based lifestyle through hands-on education, long term support and innovative ideas specific to each community.
In community gardens we teach people to cultivate nutritious food for themselves, creating a systemic change in combating malnutrition and access issues in areas of low socioeconomic status.
By developing outdoor classrooms and curricula at local schools, K-12, we will extend the reach of our educational programs to children in the greater Raleigh area.
Through learning farms and online data sharing, we will launch workshops and provide the training necessary for people to create their own job opportunities while reconnecting with principles of ecology and self-reliance.