Georgia Southern University’s Center for Sustainability, along with several university and community partners, have established a school garden program at two elementary schools in the county with potential for expansion to five additional sites. The goals of the school garden project are to: 1) Improve health and wellness of school children through the development of school gardens, and 2) Empower the children to promote sustainable practices and healthy behaviors through science and nutrition education. Each semester, this 10-week program provides instruction and activities for K- 5 schoolchildren in the After School Program on topics such as sustainable agriculture, plant life cycles and biology, nutrition, and food preparation. It gives the children an opportunity to learn where food comes from and helps them to make healthy food choices, while getting some exercise and growing their own food. The school gardens feature 5-6 raised beds that are tended by two groups of students, a Pre-K – K garden club and a 1st – 5th grade garden club, with approximately 15 children in each garden club. The garden clubs are led each week by Georgia Southern University students as a component of service-learning projects in their courses or as volunteers from related student organizations. Departments involved in the program include Biology, First Year Experience, Health and Kinesiology, and Public Health; and engaged student organizations include Biology, Student Dietetics Association, Green Ambassadors, and Student Alliance for a Green Earth. This program engages approximately 150 people per site during each 10-week program. Keys to its success are 1) buy-in by school administrators and after school program workers, 2) commitment of faculty to oversee student lesson plan development and implementation, 3) oversight by one organization to ensure smooth transitions from one week to the next. Challenges have included 1) working with students who have either little experience with children or with the content area, 2) encouraging students to develop age-appropriate lesson plans and activities to illustrate the concepts, 3) avoiding excessive overlap as the student groups teaching the lessons change from week to week. We have found in the three semesters of the program that both student and children participants have increased their knowledge of plant biology and nutrition, are willing to try food that they have grown, and many show an interest in starting gardens at their own homes.