Tag Archives: community gardens

Project Youth Green: Familias that garden together grow together

by Rocio Zamora Arzola WHAT’S HAPPENING The social and cultural disconnect between U.S.-born Latino youth and their immigrant parents gets a greening via a community garden project in Pacoima, an L.A. suburb. Project Youth Green was launched in 2008 by Youth Speak Collective. Two acres of a four-acre plot are for youth to learn gardening […]

USDA will grow some of its own produce

by Katie Elfering WHAT’S HAPPENING It’s not just all talk about community gardens at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The government agency is putting its money where its vegetables are by starting up gardens of their own to help feed communities. As part of the Obama administration’s push to get citizens to grow more of […]

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