A number of people asked me to pass along the responses I received to
a request a couple weeks ago for national contacts of people involved
in community farming programs involving youth. Here's a summary of
everything I received. If there's no specific contact phone number
or address, you'll have to resort to information of informed sources
in the state. I haven't checked these out personally, so I can't
vouch for them being up to date. Hope it's helpful to others.
And MANY THANKS to the people who passed all this along to me. I
appreciate your help. I'll be passing this on this afternoon to someone in our
state who's interested in starting a local project. You've all been
a big help!
Charlie
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The Garden Project
Catherine Sneed
35 South Park
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-243-8558
Her project started as an organic community garden for SF county
prisoners and had great results in helping them recover self-pride
and joy in nurturing rather than harming.
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Terry Muchovic, director
Penn State Urban Gardening Program
Philadelphia
Work with youth and with 4-H
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Bonnie Acker
The Intervale Foundation
Burlington
802-864-8274
Farming project for "at-risk" youth from the city.
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Magaret Hauptman
Seattle Youth Garden Works
4321 9th Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98105
206-632-1528
A market garden which employs teens to grow and sell produce.
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Ray Figueroa
The Siembra Project
NYC (the Bronx, I think)
call 212-information
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John Ameroso
Cornell Coop Extension
New York City, NY
New Markets Project
212-932-0880
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Mike Hamm
Urban Ecology Program of Rutgers University
Department of Nutritional Sciences
mhamm@aesop.rutgers.edu
908-932-9224
Student farm and youth farm stand projects
Winston Gordon
upstate does this sort of work, too
Alison Clarke will have his info. Her number is 716-271-4007.
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Connecting Common Ground for Youth
Michigan Integrated Food and Farming Systems collaboration
Marilyn Shy, Executive Director
Michigan Association of Conservation Districts
P.O. Box 539
Lake City, MI 49651
616-839-3360
FAX 616-839-3361
mdistricts@aol.com
A Kellog Foundation-funded integrated farming systems project that
seeks to develop a pilot urban/rural exchange program in which high
school age urban youth would spend time living with farm families and
farm youth with urban families. The end goal is to establish better
understanding between the two communities.
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The Land Stewardship Project
612-653-0618
They have a tool kit for use with congregations that includes some
quality videos and workbooks.
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Fetzer Vineyards
>From the Earth to the Table
California
Introduces youth to food production on a large (7 acre) garden.
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Mark Linder
California Foundation for Ag In the Classroom
916-924-4380
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Daniel Desmond
4-H Youth Advisor
2604 Ventura Ave Rm 100
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
707-527-2621
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A teacher somewhere in Northern California has an exciting program
going with bees. He is involved with urban youth, and his vo-ag
program was used by youth agencies in San Francisco for the placement
of juvenile delinquents from the city. He and his FFA chapter were
well known by the folks in:
National FFA Center
Alexandria, VA
ask for Carol Duval
Building Our American Communities (BOAC)
she or someone else there would be able to identify him.
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Extension horticulturist at the Land-Grant Institutions in
Cleveland, OH
Milwaukee, WI
Detroit, MI
Philadelphia, PA
Had good youth participation in their urban gardening programs
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Charlie Griffin
Child and Family Programs
A22 Edwards Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
Ph: 913-532-2025
e-mail: cgriffin@facts.ksu.edu