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Intro
The Freechild Project believes that young people across the nation are
taking action to clean our food sources. Their work
focuses on social and environmental justice, youth engagement in
community building, and many other areas.
Point to Ponder
"Its much
more than being a farmer... you're out to help people and make
this little part of the world farm-able and productive, make
your little street or block a better place, make the world
healthier." - A youth participant in GRuB (see below).
Resources
The following are organizations Freechild believes illustrate the ability of
young people to foster sustainable agriculture and healthier
connections between communities and food.
A national grassroots network that empowers young people to take leadership in their
communities. We are a diverse movement of youth and adult counterparts who are
committed to building healthy communities through urban and rural agriculture,
community gardening, food security, and related environmental justice work.
Offers empowerment programs that
focus on building youths' nutrition, self-esteem, community
connections, and academic enthusiasm. These programs are in the
form of academic and employment opportunities to these youth,
primarily between the ages of 13 and 19 in Thurston County,
Washington.
A youth-driven urban market farm
and landscaping business. We empower
ourselves by learning all that we can about organic gardening,
healthy business practices and responsible leadership. We break
down racial and cultural barriers through communication and
understanding within our diverse crew. We grow produce using
organic techniques and sell it at the Durham Farmer's Market.
And we promote and maintain open green spaces within the city.
Seattle Youth Garden Works
Empowers underserved youth through
garden-based education and employment. We are a youth
market gardening program for homeless and youth-in-need ages
14-22 in the University District and South Park neighborhoods.
Our goals are to connect youth to housing, health care,
education, jobs and community.
The Food Project Youth Program
Agriculture,
enterprise and service are combined to create a rigorous,
practical and integrated experience. Through all of our youth
programs, people of all ages bridge communities through farming
and food and discover their interdependence with ach other as
well as with those who purchase and receive their produce. Youth
and adults in Lincoln, Nebraska and Boston, Massachusetts learn
that work on the land can be a powerful equalizer, teacher and
catalyst for personal, local and global change.
Mo Better Food
This student-led organization
works in the West Oakland, California seeks to establish a
self-sufficient network between African- American farmers and
predominate African- American communities; to preserve and
improve Land owned by African-Americans by networking with
African- American farmers in the Southern states; and to educate
the predominate African- American communities of their history
concerning land ownership and farming.
Literacy for Environmental Justice
An urban environmental education
and youth empowerment organization created specifically to
address the unique ecological and social concerns of Bayview
Hunters Point, San Francisco, and the surrounding communities of
Mission, Potrero Hill, Visitacion Valley, and Excelsior,
California.
Includes funding resources, listserves, and more.
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