Teen Leadership Corps (TLC) at Awbury Arboretum

Program Type: 
Kitchen Classrooms, Garden Classrooms, Farm Based
Grade Level/Age Group: 
High School
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
100
Year Founded: 
2014
About the Program: 

creating personal and social change through small urban agricultural youth run food businesses….urban grown and raised.

 

Our Mission

The mission of the Teen Leadership Corps is to create a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to learn about food, farming, entrepreneurship, and each other.  Our community works together to create urban agricultural based products and services and to learn essential business skills.  We provide youth leadership opportunities and place to learn and to earn. 

 

Our Vision

We envision a world where youth are active leaders, diverse communities feel connected to the land and each other, and businesses work to benefit the communities in which they thrive.  

 

Our Values

We believe:

  • youth and adult partnerships are at the heart of our best work;
  • we are stewards of our land and our community – and, in turn, they sustain us;
  • our strength grows from diverse experiences, backgrounds, cultures and points of view;
  • in hard work that balances rigor, reflection and fun