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Happy 2013 from our team. Photo by Dylan Hollingsworth
Jeanne, Jabari, Johanna, Leo and Karnesha wish you all the best for much growth in 2013!
As we reflect on the accomplishments and struggles of 2012, we are grateful for an overwhelming sense of success. Our farm continues to thrive, as do the youth we serve. We’re grown so much as we now approach our THIRD year! Every year we take thoughtful, planned steps to hire more youth, grow more sustainable produce, and share more food with New Orleanians in need.
Thank you to everyone for your continued generosity in our year end giving campaign (it’s not too late!) – we are thrilled to be wildly surpassing our fundraising goals.
“A proper community is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members – among them the need to need one another.” -Wendell Berry
Happy New Year!
Want to get your hands dirty and directly support sustainable local food systems in your city? We’d love to have you join us for any of the following volunteer days on our farm in City Park this fall.
The weather is cooling off (finger’s crossed!) so now is a great time to volunteer. We have lots of work to do to prepare for our FALL PLANT SHOW & PARTY (save the date – Nov. 3) and for the next crop of Grow Dat youth crew members who will begin their farming jobs with us in January 2013.
Saturdays in October, November and December 2012
October 13th, 20th and 27th
November 10th
December 1st and 15th
9am – 12 noon
Please notify Jabari Brown if you intend to join us for any of these dates: jabari1@growdatyouthfarm.org, cell: 601.260.0509. Wear long pants, boots or sturdy shoes, and be sure to bring a hat and a water bottle.
Thanks for your support! Hope to see you on the farm this fall.
Grow Dat Youth Farm 