About
We are a youth gardening education initiative focused on teaching youth how to:
Create your own garden
With us, get support on starting your own homegrown garden with minimal space and resources.
Understand plant power
Read our resources to explore the importance of plants and how youth can incorporate them in their lives. Learn the benefits of a plant-focused diet and examine the environmental, societal, and ethical factors that intersect with a nation’s. food system
Bring plant to plate
Learn how you can better incorporate fresh garden produce into meals
We want to emphasize…
One of our top priorities is educating others on the importance of moving away from factory farming and becoming more sustainable in localized agricultural systems.
We value diversity, inclusion, and equity. We also understand that some people are more disadvantaged than others in their food choices; we live in food apartheid* in the United States, which leads communities of color and communities living in poverty to have limited access to nutritious and sustainable food sources.
This is why we have made a point to prioritize lower income, minority, POC, and marginalized youth in this education initiative and provide them with as many resources as possible.
We acknowledge and emphasize that gardening can have great mental health benefits and promote gardening as a way of improving mental health.
*Food apartheid is institutional inequality in the opportunity to access food.
Our Vision
The promotion of food sovereignty for youth.
“Food sovereignty is the peoples right to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.” - La Via Campesina
