Growing Good Food and Youth Empowerment
iGrow- "Whatever You Like," is a Frenchtown-based youth empowerment and urban agriculture program of the Tallahassee Food Network, named and largely run by the iGrow Youth themselves.
From manufacturing and selling iGrow Buckets; to planting, tending, harvesting, and selling produce at the Dunn St Youth Farm, to teaching other young people urban agriculture, iGrow works to engage youth in the work of creating 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 the COPE Coalition.
(You may know iGrow by another name, YELDA, Youth Empowerment and 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.)
*Other Youth Engagement programs and initiatives of TFN inclue: Preparing Youth to Participate and the Youth Symposium on Hunger and Food coordinated by Qasimah Boston of Project F.O.O.D.
From manufacturing and selling iGrow Buckets; to planting, tending, harvesting, and selling produce at the Dunn St Youth Farm, to teaching other young people urban agriculture, iGrow works to engage youth in the work of creating 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 the COPE Coalition.
(You may know iGrow by another name, YELDA, Youth Empowerment and 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.)
*Other Youth Engagement programs and initiatives of TFN inclue: Preparing Youth to Participate and the Youth Symposium on Hunger and Food coordinated by Qasimah Boston of Project F.O.O.D.
