The Youth Farm grows organic food and flowers on one acre for the community and beyond, and offers advanced farm training and leadership opportunities for youth and adults. 

The Youth Farm as an Outdoor Classroom
As an "outdoor classroom" for all  students, the Youth Farm is a space for hands-on, experiential learning across all learning disciplines. Students participate on the farm through various means, from our customized year-round "Go Green" elective class, to after-school Farm Club, to Wrestling Team "practices," to Summer Youth Employment. In Go Green, students analyze and do hands-on projects about their food system -- from labor issues to corporate control by media to industrialized agriculture. After-school Farm Club is a voluntary club, in which students come out to the Farm and do hands-on work, from soil preparation to planting to carpentry and painting.  Through our Summer Youth program, 12 Student farmers are hired to help manage the farm, harvest for our market, perform community outreach, run market cooking demonstrations, lead public tours, and more.

OUR VISION AND WORK:

1. The intention of this campaign is to affect a paradigm shift in in the way that our world approaches food security and financial security. Urban Farming s a holistic global vision that sees a future in which good health, innovation and productivity are an inherent part of our lifestyle.
2.  This campaign empowers people who are unemployed, underemployed, laid off, malnourished, have unhealthy diets, suffer from hunger or food insecurity. 
3. We connect people to opportunity so that they may move from stagnant, difficult conditions to vibrant, healthy and productive lifestyles. This transformation can enable people to be victorious in the global markets. This includes connecting people to information, training and educational opportunities.
4. We believe in empowering people and transforming lives. 

Education and Job Training 

The Youth Farm seeks to provide educational experiences and job training opportunities for youth and adults. In addition to our student/youth education, we offer a variety of educational workshops for people of all ages as well as our  Urban Farm Training Program from April-November, for adults interested in taking their interest in sustainable agriculture to the next level. This intensive seven month program involves a commitment of 20 hours a week on the farm, practicing a wide range of farming skills through hands-on training, weekly workshops on all aspects of urban agriculture, and focused 'rotations' in Propagation, Irrigation, Farm Management, CSA, Farmers Market, Compost, and Flowers.



Coordinator of DEW Urban and Sustainability:  Kateia Brooks- Barrett                      E:mail:  [email protected]