
The Druid City Garden Project (DCGP) is a 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to educate and empower adults and children to make healthy, smart and sustainable food choices. We do this by providing low-income communities of Alabama with the knowledge of and access to sustainably grown food within a thriving local foods economy which is accessible to all. Currently DCGP operates school gardens at University Place Elementary (UPES) and Stillman Heights Elementary schools where biweekly lessons are taught, augmenting classroom knowledge of science and math with added components of nutrition. Using the garden, students help grow the vegetables which they then help sell at an on-site, subsidized Farm Stand.