Students learn about balanced meals, different types of gardening, nutrition, and other topics while interacting with the gardens at each of their schools. Pictured above are students with Nutrition Wellness Coordinator A’keti Mayweather. CONTRIBUTED
A’keta Mayweather shows off the aquaponics lab in the Baldwin Grows Learning Lab, which includes 79 fish to help sustain the garden. CONTRIBUTED
The Baldwin County School District’s Nutrition Department was nationally recognized with the Innovation in Nutrition Education Award as part of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Action for Healthy Kids’ Healthy Meals Incentives Recognition Awards.Nutrition Wellness Coordinator A’keti Mayweather joined the school district in 2018. That same year, she helped to plant th...