70 high school students from across New York attended three days of workshops on leadership training, community organizing, food justice, gardening and farming methods, youth empowerment, seasonal cooking, school food, food system education, nutrition and health as well as hands-on gardening activism at the first Youth Grow Summit hosted June 28-30 by the Department of Horticulture’s Garden-Based Learning Program in partnership with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s 4-H Career Explorations Conference.
“Our goal is to provide youth with the leadership skills, guidance and inspiration needed to build sustainable community food systems,” said Christine Hadekel, the Youth Grow coordinator at the Garden-Based Learning Program.
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