GrassRoots Middle

This spring, we deepened our work in food justice and leadership and added a new dimension: power in business, marketing, and sales. We wanted our students to see how economics and civics are connected — how goods, persuasion, and community are all part of the same conversation about justice and stewardship. This summer, we’re taking it further. Our focus is trust — what it looks like one on one and what it means to show up for a community. Our students are stepping into that

This winter, our students dove deep into food justice and community-controlled food economies through our place-based curriculum across Atlanta. We opened the session by connecting Dr. King's vision of environmental and economic justice to how community gardens build neighborhood power and food sovereignty. We also explored gentrification through neighborhood observation walks, examining how changing jobs, demographics, and development reshape who has access to land, food, an

We'd been talking about food apartheid for weeks. The charts, the vocabulary, the questions — our students had the framework. But walking into Sevananda? That's when it got real. Sevananda is one of the oldest collectively-owned natural food stores in the Southeast, and it's right here in Atlanta. Community-owned means the people who shop there can also own it. Decisions about what's stocked, who's paid fairly, where the money goes — that's not a distant corporation. That's t

This season at GrassRoots Middle we are studying the importance of food and it's connection to our government. We can't effectively discuss food without mentioning the importance of SLOW Food. The SLOW Food movement was created in 1989 in Italy by Carlo Petrini. Carlo, along with others, was protesting the opening of a McDonalds in Rome. To protest the McDonald's "Americanizing" of the Italian culture, Petrini directed protestors and others to eat locally and honor regional

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