Whitney M. Young Magnet High School

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group: 
High School
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
2,000
Year Founded: 
2012
About the Program: 

1st we want to encourage lower income residents of our neighboring residential area to have free access to fresh produce that they help to grow. 2nd Empower our students to understand how to plant grow maintain a sustainable garden that can be passed down from class to class. 3rd capture the oral history of resident elders about the foods they used to eat grow those raw materials & have them teach us how to cook their foods and pass on their childhood legacy to our students & community.