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4 1/2 Week program, July 1-August 2, 9 am - 2 pm. Open to rising 11th graders to recently graduated youth (16-19 years old) who attend Brookline High School and/or live in Brookline. Earn $15/hour to maintain and enhance school gardens, and earn elective school credit to learn, engage and produce food. Visit Boston food justice sites to volunteer and learn from exemplary organizations. Write and share a personal food justice vision statement at a culminating banquet with family and community members, and enjoy food from diverse heritages. |
The best way to learn is by doing. Growing Empowerment begins by building community. Relationship is our foundation—reciprocity with each other, with what we cultivate, grow and decompose in the soil. Everything we learn about in our indoor or outdoor classroom, we explore and put into practice in our growing spaces. That includes the heritage food we grow, the connection we make with the race and immigration status of the work done in our gardens and on commercial scale, our emphasis on sustainable practices and the reconnection with our health and power that the industrial food system erodes. |