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In Camden, a Hot Sauce is Helping Young Urban Entrepreneurs Fight Poverty
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A teen-focused entrepreneurial program in Southern NJ offers job training and education By Suzanne Cope Last fall, a half-dozen teenagers from the Southern New Jersey city of Camden brought hot peppers they’d grown in an urban garden to a rented industrial kitchen. Donning latex gloves, they de-seeded and chopped the chilies before adding them to…
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Sowing the Seeds of Food Justice
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A Guide for Farmers Who Want to Supply Low-Income Communities While Maintaining Financial Sustainability This manual offers strategies and insights to help you run a small farm business that supports the needs of low-income communities. As much as farmers want to support the community, the community needs our solidarity. About 50 million Americans are food insecure, with half…
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I Love New York Agriculture Art & Writing Contest
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Each year, NYAITC and New York Farm Bureau sponsor an opportunity for Pre-K through middle school students across the state to discover more about where food comes from and why agriculture is important. The contest is divided by grade level, and each level has a specific topic to create a piece of art, poem, or…
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Youth Pages: What It Means To Me
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Being on a small farm and in 4-H can mean a lot of things for a person. There are so many different programs and projects that a person is bound to find something that they like! For me, it means that I can spend a lot of time expanding my knowledge of different animals and…
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Youth Pages: Speeches, Service, and Sheep
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I have been in 4-H for 4 years. I enjoy making and showing my projects. In 4-H, you get to try different activities like public presentations and community service. In public presentations, you pick a topic, create a speech about it, and present it to an audience. In community service, you do voluntary service for…
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Youth Pages: 4-H and Farming
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Being born and raised on a farm has taught me many things. One of the most important is probably my work ethic. I hate to leave things unfinished, or not do my best at whatever I’m doing. I take my work ethic with me to school. My schedule is full and my classes give a…
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Youth Pages: Dairy Farming and 4-H
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Growing up on a dairy farm and being in 4-H has given me some great opportunities. Doing chores on the farm has taught me about hard work. Through 4-H, I have been involved in the Dairy Bowl competition, representing my county at the regional contest for three years and last year at the State level…
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Youth Pages: Traveling with 4-H through Horticulture Contest
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I just got back from San Diego, California. Now, let me tell you how I got there. I live on an organic dairy farm with my family in a small town in Northern New York. I have been in the 4-H horticulture program for 8 years now. The first year I did the horticulture ID…
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The Youth Farmstand: Seeding Success for Youth, Farmers & Communities
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Since 2003, the Seeds to Success program has been training New Jersey youth in new job skills, bringing business to farmers, and increasing community access to healthy food. In 2003, Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) of Gloucester County launched Seeds to Success, a youth farmstand project. Now in its 8th year, Seeds to Success, part of…
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