Teaching kids about sustainable agriculture with STEM curriculum. Please check out our website at www.secondstorygardens.com.
In furtherance of our Mission, we have built an aquaponic garden at a local elementary school, traditional raised garden beds at a shared living facility. We are in the planning process for an aquaponic greenhouse and outdoor classroom at a local Middle School. Our goal is to expand to high schools and start small local gardens that will employ high school students. In addition, we hope to grow en
05/16/2018
Check out the Ribbon cutting at our Tucker High School Garden.
Ribbon Cutters - THS Greenhouse The STEM students at Tucker High School celebrated a long-term project that came to fruition over the weekend. Their brand new greenhouse will help teach abo...
09/29/2017
Working with the 4th grade at Livsey Elementary. Thanks to Ms Brinson, Ms Calhoun & Mrs Vance for organizing.
08/22/2017
We have come a long way on our garden at Tucker High School. Stay tuned for the grand opening!
12/08/2016
Many hands make less work! We're fortunate to have a great team of student volunteers from Tucker High School to help with the build.
11/28/2016
Breaking ground at Tucker High School!
08/22/2016
We're growing again! Second Story Gardens is pleased to announce our newest team member, Morgan Strickland. Morgan will be working alongside Pavan in the design and ex*****on of the Tucker High School Aquaponics Garden. Morgan is an architecture graduate from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She started her career practicing architectural design at HKS, Inc. in Washington, DC, where she designed buildings for large healthcare, corporate, athletic, and residential complexes. She worked at Lightroom in Decatur, designing and executing various art installations tiny houses, and modern single family homes and currently works as the Director of Architecture at the Goat Farm Arts Center, where she is assisting in the design and ex*****on of new design platforms for the city.
08/18/2016
Second Story Gardens is pleased to announce that Pavan Iyer has accepted our Internship position. Pavan will be directly involved with the design and construction of the Tucker High School aquaponic garden as well as serving as a mentor for students at Tucker High.
Pavan graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in Architecture and is currently pursuing his Masters Degree in Architecture at Tech. Prior to joining our team he interned with Lake/Flato, a place based sustainable architecture firm located in Austin TX.
I have no doubt that Pavan will excel in this position and look forward to working with him on the THS garden.
05/25/2016
The Tucker Middle School STEM class planted a 3 sisters garden a few weeks ago. For those that aren't familiar, Native American tribes planted corn, beans and squash together. Like sisters, these companion plants support, nurture and protect each other. Hopefully, when the students return to school they will be able to harvest this crop and take it to market. Tucker Middle School PTA
04/29/2016
Internship Position
Are you a college student looking for an internship? Do you know a college student that's looking for an internship? At Second Story Gardens Interns work on projects that matter - your skills and insight will help bring these projects to market. If you're passionate about sustainability, community involvement and education we have the internship for you. The Internship will last approximately 15 weeks, starting in August and running until December. You will be required to work 5 - 10 hours per week and upon successful completion of the internship you'll earn $1000. For more information go to www.secondstorygardens.com.
Home Second Story Gardens is a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching kids about sustainable agriculture, promoting healthy eating habits and reducing food deserts. To this end we help create student designed, student built and student operated aquaponic gardens at local schools.
SECOND STORY GARDENS RECEIVES DONATION FROM THE RESURGENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Second Story Gardens is pleased to announce it has received a $7,000 donation from the Resurgens Charitable Foundation. These funds will support the building of SSG’s third STEM-based aquaponics garden at the Tucker High School Campus in Tucker, Georgia. This new garden will be designed, built and operated by the STEM cohort at Tucker High School. This donation will also allow SSG to bring in a college intern to work with the students while gaining valuable development and project management experience.
Second Story Gardens’ mission is to teach kids about sustainable agriculture, promote healthy eating habits, and reduce food deserts in urban areas. We are greatly appreciative of this donation from the Resurgens Charitable Foundation that will allow us to continue this mission. Work will start on the new garden at the beginning of the 2016 - 2017 school year.
Second Story Gardens is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that currently operates 2 aquaponic gardens at Livsey Elementary and Tucker Middle School.