Data centers generate significant heat. Growing Augusta could explore a pilot greenhouse, seedling nursery, or propagation space that uses recovered or redirected heat from the facility. Even if full heat reuse is too complex at first, the partnership could begin with an on-site or adjacent controlled-environment agriculture demo supported by the data center’s sustainability team.
Read MoreThe communities that thrive over the next decade may not be the ones with the biggest budgets, the newest buildings, or the most elaborate strategic plans. They may be the ones that learn how to connect what they already have. And that is a different way to think about growth.
Read MoreIn 2025, Georgia launched Teach in the Peach, a statewide initiative that celebrates students choosing careers in education. Watching future teachers publicly recognized for their commitment made me wonder:
What if we did something similar for agriculture?
Read MorePrograms like this do more than teach technical skills. They help students stretch, grow, and discover capacity they did not know they had.
Sometimes all it takes is one teacher willing to say, “I think you can do this.”
And sometimes, the student believes them.
Read MoreBefore you ask people to invest their labor in a teaching farm, invest time in building the systems that support them.
Inside you'll find governance tools, startup checklists, readiness assessments, onboarding systems, agreements, community engagement strategies, operational frameworks, and perhaps most importantly, lessons learned from observing a teaching farm launch in real time.
Read MoreAcross the arts, organizations are navigating change, restructuring, budget challenges, and venue shifts. But the Greater Augusta Arts Council continues to model resilience and creativity - finding ways to adapt while keeping artists and community at the center.
Read MoreFood connects us all.
By sponsoring Augusta Restaurant Week, your organization helps celebrate the farmers, chefs, entrepreneurs, volunteers, and families who contribute to a stronger, healthier, and more vibrant Augusta.
Read MoreThis year’s theme, From Farm to Fork: The Community Table Edition, honors the people, places, and traditions behind every plate. From community gardens and farmers markets to restaurants, food trucks, caterers, bakers, chefs, growers, and neighborhood food leaders, Augusta Restaurant Week 2026 is designed to bring the community together around food, story, and local economic support.
Read MoreBecause relationships are infrastructure — and good work grows stronger when we steward them with care.
Read MoreMany of us are doing important work in our neighborhoods, nonprofits, churches, schools, markets, civic groups, small businesses, coalitions, and creative communities. But too often, the work lives in our heads, in scattered notebooks, in text messages, in event flyers, in social media posts, or in memories.
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