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Growing Farmers and Leaders: A Vision for the Future
…if we are going to grow farmers, we need to go beyond youth employment. Our hope for the Ball property is that it will serve as a training center, equipping passionate, talented, hard-working youth and young adults with the skills to benefit their community through small-scale farming.
Farming Advice From the Mattress King
A running joke on the farm this Spring has been a quote from none other than the Mattress King. In a recent NPR interview, the Mattress King, who as part of an advertising scheme for his business made a losing bet of 1.2 million dollars on the favored horse for the...
On Solid Ground
I know I personally imagine a revolution in our communities where young adults are equipped to change the world through the art of farming, and I believe this beautiful agricultural movement will begin right in the heart of the Creston neighborhood.
Hope and Sandwiches
I have come to appreciate the gritty and raw story that is Clyde’s. One character describes a sandwich as, “… the culmination of a long hard journey that began with a wheat seed cultivated by a farmer thousands of years ago.” He encourages his peers to pause, and they slowly begin to make connections between their own personal hopes and the wider world through the food they make together. I’ve let the words of the script become a mirror to what we are doing here at New City Neighbors.