Project Overview
Commodities
Practices
- Animal Production: feed/forage
- Crop Production: high tunnels or hoop houses, low tunnels, organic fertilizers
- Education and Training: mentoring, workshop, youth education
- Energy: solar energy
- Farm Business Management: land access
- Natural Resources/Environment: biodiversity, drift/runoff buffers, habitat enhancement, Rain gardens
- Pest Management: mulches - general, physical control
- Production Systems: integrated crop and livestock systems, organic agriculture
- Soil Management: composting, earthworms, green manures, soil microbiology, soil quality/health
- Sustainable Communities: community development, ethnic differences/cultural and demographic change, food access and security, food sovereignty, leadership development, partnerships, urban agriculture, urban/rural integration
Proposal abstract:
The Urban Food & Ecology Project
is a collaboration of seven organizations, representing diverse
cultures. Our summer YOUTH STEWARDS will enjoy hands-on
experiences in community gardens and at Prairie Rose Farm, under
leadership from farmers and gardeners with decades of experience
in Sustainable Agriculture.
Project objectives from proposal:
1. Introduce underserved BIPOC
youth and their families to sustainable community gardening and
farming to ensure they have access to fresh food and build a
sustainable local food system that unites small-scale new
farmers with urban gardeners.
- Increase sustainable
farming/gardening skills of 12-20 high school students through
hands-on work with urban and rural organic and regenerative
farmers and gardeners - Introduce youth to Food and
Ecology career opportunities through interviews and 3 hands-on
projects with farmers, grocers, food pantries, and
chefs.
4.. Increase agricultural and
environmental awareness/literacy, including regeneration, soil
health, carbon sequestration, bioremediation, perennial crops,
pollinators, and climate adaptations.