Yellow Tractor Program brings healthy lifestyles to Auburn Gresham

With the generous guidance of Wendy Irwin and the Yellow Tractor Program, Perspectives Leadership Academy on the Auburn Gresham campus received and installed several new urban garden boxes as part of a larger program to promote healthy lifestyles. Kellogg Business School of Management students teamed with Perspectives Leadership Academy students to build the garden boxes and plant the first seedlings.  Edelman public relations firm President Rick Murray was on hand to be a part of this exciting learning experience.

Visionary teacher leader Steve Millard, responsible for making this project a reality, reported, "Perspectives' vision with the Yellow Tractor Program is to grow and develop our scholars as leaders in the school and community, giving them the leadership capabilities to thrive in the college environment.  The new gardens provided by Yellow Tractor will achieve this by allowing students to confront the devastating lack of fresh produce within the community by learning valuable horticulture skills and educating the community.  In the Environmental Activism class, Perspectives Leadership Academy seniors will tend the gardens and craft action plans for selling the produce and promoting healthy living within Auburn Gresham."

The Yellow Tractor Program advocates for sustainable growth by building vegetable and fruit gardens; clearing a path for food security, providing opportunities for healthier life skills, and creating a safe place for children to grow not only food, but themselves.

Perspectives students planting with Kellogg Business School of Management students.