WHO WE ARE

The Lettuce Learn team is made up of students, teachers, administrators, and dirt lovers of all sorts.  The Lettuce Learn seed was planted by Courtney Baines Smith out of her passion for gardens, farms, food, and education. 
We are always looking for more hands to get involved, so contact us today!

Leadership Team:

Shannon Carroll, Co-Director and Garden Coordinator at Parkway School

Courtney Baines Smith, Founder/Co-Director & Executive Director of Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture

Luci Hancock, Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture AmeriCorps VISTA

Margie Mansure, nutrition educator and extension agent

SCHOOL GARDEN LEADS

​Shannon Carroll brings rich experience as a retired teacher/technology specialist, gardener and co-owner of SunCatcher Passive Solar Greenhouses. She helped establish the school garden at Mabel School and now serves as our Garden Lead at Parkway School.

Parker Grissom is the Garden Lead at Hardin Park Elementary.

Georgia Golden is an ASU student and serves as the Garden Lead at the ASU Child Development Center.

Dana Holden has over 20 years of gardening experience. She is the After school Program Coordinator and Garden Lead at Valle Crucis Elementary. Dana is interested in propagating native plants and apple grafting. 

Olivia Moran is an ASU student and serves as the Garden Lead at Two Rivers Community School. 

Leah Landrum is a 7th grade science and math teacher and the garden lead at Green Valley Elementary.

Debbie Bauer is the Garden Lead at Bethel Elementary. She has served as the Garden Manager at Appalachian State's Edible Schoolyard and on Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture's Board of Directors. 

Julia Showalter is a professor at Appalachian state and serves as the Garden Lead at Blowing Rock Elementary, where her two sons go to school.

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