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.