Urban Farm Apprenticeship at Franklinton Farms

Commodities

Practices

The Urban Farm Apprenticeship is an intensive, paid career development pathway offered to teens in Franklinton that utilizes a productive farming social enterprise–working with Urban Farmers to learn and practice sustainable agriculture hard skills from seed to sale–and trauma-informed therapeutic garden education framework integrating soft skills of mindfulness, conflict resolution, and self efficacy. Youth are also mentored by a community network of small scale and/or minority growers addressing social inequities in their neighborhoods by sustaining a local food system.

1. Develop 5-10 students’ sustainable agriculture skills through tending their own farm garden at Franklinton Farms under the guidance of urban growers.
2. Increase 5-10 youth’s capacity for social/emotional resilience and soft work skills through therapeutic garden education. 
3. Introduce 5-10 youth to the career field of Urban Agriculture and its application in improving social equity, namely food access and food sovereignty, in historically segregated communities.