Oconee County residents can add fresh kale, chard, beets, lettuce and more vegetables to their weekly groceries. The University of Georgia and High Shoals Elementary School in Bishop have partnered to plant a community-supported agriculture garden.

The garden will help raise funds for High Shoals.

Faith Peppers, of UGA's College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, explains that the garden will also serve as an educational tool for students.

“The program that we’re working on with High Shoals Elementary is sort of a new take on a program that we’ve had for several years of helping schools install learning gardens at their schools," says Peppers.

"And through these gardens the children expand the education they have in the classroom to the outdoors.”
According to UGA, the young planters have already raised $500 pre-selling shares of the produce.