The kids are cooking at home.

 

As part of our RootDown LA Youth Leader training (it prepares kids to teach others, lessons about food justice and nutrition, and techniques to make veggies taste better) the students are asked to cook at least two meals at home that include at least three veggies.  These are pics from their home veggie cooking adventures.

Farm our Yard indeed.

We've been seeing in the news - folks in other towns indicating they are willing to have SOMEONE plant food in their yard by putting a sign out front, "Farm our Yard".  In South LA, a group of youth are already on it.  Thanks to NIFA, we are in the midst of our first 13 week training that prepares young people to design, install, maintain and distribute produce from a network of neighborhood gardens.

If you were a pepper...

If you were a pepper, who would your friends and enemies be? Learning to think like the veggies helps students decide what to plant and where to plant it at RootDown's horticultural and entrepreneurial training.