Youth Garden Project
Teaches High School Students
by
Shawn Harrison, SAREP
A small but growing youth gardening and plant nursery program has been developed in North Sacramento, with support from SAREP, UC Davis, Project YE’ES (Youth Economic Education Stability), Grant Union High School’s Regional Opportunity Program (R.O.P.) and Voluntary Integration Program (V.I.P.), the Mutual Assistance Network of Del Paso Heights, and Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency. SAREP is providing funding for the student outreach coordinator.
The program works with 40 high school students from two low-income neighborhoods, Del Paso Heights and Strawberry Manor, teaching them valuable skills in horticulture, urban agriculture, urban design and landscaping, and business management. Activities and training take place after school at the Fred Lawson Memorial Nursery and the Garden of Ethnic American Treasures on the Grant High School campus. This season will be an exciting time for the program, now in its third year, as the students expand the garden and begin to develop business ventures including a community supported agriculture project (CSA or subscription farm) at the garden site and a fall plant sale at the nursery. Students will also be conducting several community workshops on how to start your own garden in the spring and summer of 2000. For more information about the project, contact outreach coordinator Shawn Harrison at (916) 927-7694, ext. 204 or Anne Marie Kennedy at (530) 752-7956.
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