MY WHY MISSION & GOALS FOUNDED IN 2016 501 C 3

Our mission is to equip underserved children with the knowledge and the training to properly feed themselves for a lifetime. “Don’t give them a fish, teach them to fish”.

Our goals are to:

1. Reduce food insecurity by providing access to nutritious foods through donations and local farmer’s market.
2. Educate children about the benefits of proper nutrition.
3. Provide academic tutoring and athletic coaching to teach teamwork and to engender pride and self-worth.
4. Provide hands-on experience in traditional farming, raised bed farming & hydroponics.
5. Provide experience in growing, harvesting and marketing produce in their neighborhood.

​CANCEL FOOD INSECURITY-ONE STEP AT A TIME

• Step 1 – Teach them to LOVE healthy produce.
• Step 2 – Teach them to LOVE healthy movement.
• Step 3 – Improve grades through building a healthier brain, regular exercise & tutoring.
• Step 4 – Teach them to grow their own food.
• Step 5 – Teach them the entrepreneurial skills of organizing/participating  in farmer’s markets.
• Step 6 – Repeat until there are no more food deserts & food insecurities.

​CANCEL FOOD INSECURITY-ONE CHILD AT A TIME!

Summer Tutoring & Agriculture Camp

• Full day camp, June-August.
• Breakfast, lunch and snacks.
• Books, computer use, school supplies & transportation.
• Soil & hydroponic growing, animal care, agritourism activities.
• Entrepreneurial experiences, creating a farmer’s market.
• Clothing & proper footwear for agriculture kids' program.
• Cost per child $2,650 ​

Hydroponics​

“Freight Farm”

• Shipping container - takes up 4 parking spots
• Grow 13,000 heads of lettuce every 45 days (peppers, strawberries, spinach & more)
• Controlled by a “Farm Hand” - water, temperature & light
• Less waste, fewer chemicals, controlled environment, no pests or pesticides
• Recoup expenses end of year 3

Soil Based/ Farm Experience

•  Fewer than 5 % of students make the connection between a farm & food
•  Nature & stress reduction
•  Empathy learned from animal care
•  Few have access or visit parks regularly - will become voters who reject levies
•  Summer school & summer jobs
•  Experiences outside of their neighborhood
•  Create interest in ag & technology careers
•  Justice for black farmer’s act

 "I think it's definitely a step in the right direction …  but we need to create pipelines for African Americans  to be educated on a 21st-century farm”

Grow, sell, re-invest, repeat

•  On school site, improve access and obstacles to getting produce home
• Accept SNAP
• Subsidize growers who participate (produce sold at cost/ we pay growers “profit”
• 5th-8th grade student workers, % of student grown sales go towards scholarship fund 
• Students improve life skills
• Sales, marketing, technology, customer service experience
• Host year round
• Sell sponsorships/Unicity
• Supply local restaurants & school cafeterias
• Self sustaining after year 2