Growing Food, Growing
Leaders, Growing Capacity
iGrow- "Whatever You Like" is a Frenchtown-based youth empowerment and urban agriculture project, named and largely run by the iGrow Youth themselves.
From installing and maintaining the Second Harvest Community Garden; to manufacturing and selling iGrow Buckets; to laying the foundation for a youth urban farm, iGrow works to engage youth in the work of creating a resilient, community-based food systems.
iGrow is one* of the Tallahassee Food Network's youth-focused initiatives. It emerged from and continues to be sustained by partnerships amongst the Frenchtown Revitalization Council and Frenchtown CDC; Tallahassee Food Gardens and the Tallahassee Sustainability Group; C.A.N.D.I. and Project F.O.O.D; the Damayan Garden Project and Turkey Hill Farm.
(You may know iGrow by another name, YELDA, Youth Empowerment Leadership Development Academy, which in years past, conducted research on the availability (i.e. the lack) of fresh, healthy food options within the Greater Frenchtown neighborhood; thus they laid the groundwork for iGrow's current work in growing healthy food.)
*The other is the Youth Symposium on Hunger and Food coordinated by Qasimah Boston of Project F.O.O.D.
From installing and maintaining the Second Harvest Community Garden; to manufacturing and selling iGrow Buckets; to laying the foundation for a youth urban farm, iGrow works to engage youth in the work of creating a resilient, community-based food systems.
iGrow is one* of the Tallahassee Food Network's youth-focused initiatives. It emerged from and continues to be sustained by partnerships amongst the Frenchtown Revitalization Council and Frenchtown CDC; Tallahassee Food Gardens and the Tallahassee Sustainability Group; C.A.N.D.I. and Project F.O.O.D; the Damayan Garden Project and Turkey Hill Farm.
(You may know iGrow by another name, YELDA, Youth Empowerment Leadership Development Academy, which in years past, conducted research on the availability (i.e. the lack) of fresh, healthy food options within the Greater Frenchtown neighborhood; thus they laid the groundwork for iGrow's current work in growing healthy food.)
*The other is the Youth Symposium on Hunger and Food coordinated by Qasimah Boston of Project F.O.O.D.
