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The Sweet Pea Club is a weekly event run by the State Botanical Garden of Georgia’s education department that teaches young children about the importance of environmental stewardship.

The club meets on Thursdays at 10 a.m. in the Alice H. Richards Children’s Garden, with each week focusing on a new topic.

Katie McCollum, the curator of the children’s garden, believes that the program is valuable to all attendees regardless of age.

“That’s kind of what we’re trying to do, is help not only teach the kiddos,” McCollum said, “but help teach their adults so that these are lessons that can make their way into their world more seamlessly.”

The program costs $3 to attend and typically lasts about an hour, featuring stories, hands-on engagement or hikes designed to teach children about the importance of environmentalism.

Parker McCollum is a journalism major in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Gerogia.