We can’t stress enough, the power of community building, when you want to affect change among youth.
We firmly believe, when you connect youth to a community, in which they feel they have a place and a voice, they will tend to adopt the values of that community.
If healthy food is a part of that community, kids are eventually going to eat it!
While our focus this year is on Jefferson High School in South Los Angeles, we’re also keeping our connection with our original school, Manual Arts, and building connections with new schools, such as Morningside High in Inglewood, that want to improve the food cultures among their students. We recently delivered our Youth Leader training program at The Accelerated School (TAS) which as an ABUNDANT garden used to connect youth (and their parents) to the source of healthy food.
It’s not hard to convince many of the parents, who themselves are already seasoned cooks, to eat their greens…
Greens with pine nuts and caramelized onions. Yum.
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