Clemson Extension School & Community Gardening

🚨Grant Alert for SC educators! Up to $2500 available for student led environmental education projects for your school (including school gardens)! Application is open now and due September 15. Learn more below and apply today 💚🌱♻️

Calling all K-12 teachers! Applications are now open for SCDES’ Champions of the Environment grants!

Schools can receive up to $2,500 for student-led projects that protect the environment and build environmental awareness. From pollinator gardens to renewable energy projects, your students can make a difference and become Champions of the Environment! 🐝🌱☀️

📅 Apply by Sept. 15, 2026.
Get inspired by past projects and apply: bit.ly/4wINsQS

Love to see these smiling faces back at school and into the garden! 🌻🍠🧑🏽‍🌾 Hope everyone had a wonderful summer 🤩 Clemson Extension Rural Health and Nutrition-Darlington County

Happy back to school, South Carolina! 🍎📚
Welcome back to the staff and most of the students this week. Check out some resources below to get your class geared up to get back into the garden 🌱

Back to School & Into the Garden! 🍎🌱 We're kicking off the school year with lots of opportunities to energize and enhance your gardens! Check out the garden refresh tips (see checklist below!), online garden course, and funding opportunities to apply for this fall!

☀️Summer break is almost here ☀️ There are two SC Ag in the Classroom summer workshops to choose from! For more information and to register see below:

www.scfb.org/aitc-summer-workshops

Registration is open for our 2026 AITC Summer Workshops! We're changing things up this year and offering two overnight, 2-day workshops.

Join us in Clemson or Charleston for hands-on professional development that will equip you with the tools necessary to integrate agriculture into your daily lessons. Learn more and register on our website: www.scfb.org/aitc-summer-workshops

PLUS, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, we are giving away a FREE registration to each workshop. To enter, tag a teacher friend in the comments and tell us which workshop you'd like to attend. Winners will be announced Friday, May 8.

🎉 Congratulations to our giveaway winners - Julia Choate and Sheryl Maynor! We can't wait to see you this summer! We will send you a direct message to confirm your registration. Disclaimer - we will never ask you for personal or credit card information.

🚨Grant alert for SC schools!! Eight $500 mini-grants available for classrooms incorporating agriculture and growing food with students! Apply by September 7, 2026. 🌱

Applications are open for the 2026 Learn to Farm Classroom Mini-Grants! This program provides funding to support classroom project that enhance students' understanding of agriculture, farming and food systems.

This year, the SCFB Young Farmers and Ranchers are expanding the program to offer two $500 mini-grants per SC Farm Bureau district. That means we'll award eight mini-grants across the state!

Application deadline is September 7, 2026. Learn more and apply online: www.scfb.org/mini-grant 🌱

Want to help your community connect with pollinators this summer? 🐝🌼

Join Clemson Extension on May 28 for a free Zoom program designed for schools, libraries, community gardens, nature groups, HOAs, farms, public gardens, and other organizations interested in hosting a Great Southeast Pollinator Census event this August.

Learn how easy it is to participate, how to plan a successful public counting event, and how your organization can help support pollinator awareness and community science across South Carolina.

Participants will receive free promotional materials, and a limited number of reusable event signs will be available for host sites.

📅 May 28, 2026
🕘 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
💻 Online via Zoom

👉 Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1987055049142?aff=oddtdtcreator

Let’s make every pollinator count in South Carolina!

The Great Southeast Pollinator Census: Host Site Training Join Clemson Extension to learn how your organization can host a Great Southeast Pollinator Census (GSEPC) event!

We cannot wait to hear our those salads tasted 😋 Way to grow Plainview Elementary School in Chesterfield County School District! 🥬

South Carolina Farm to School Chesterfield County Cooperative Extension Service

Spring school gardens popping up all over South Carolina! Lead Academy Charter School in Greenville was one of the 12 recipients of the SC School Garden Education & Assistance Program this semester. Thanks to funding from South Carolina Department of Education and in partnership with South Carolina Farm to School, they have had staff trained and a new garden ready for their sweet potato crops in a few weeks! We cannot wait to see this garden grow!

More Earth Day school garden celebrations 💚🌎🌱 Look at that beautiful lettuce 🥬

Plainview Elementary School Chesterfield County Cooperative Extension Service South Carolina Farm to School