It started off as a typical Friday, and the energy was palpable in Ms. Sarmiento’s third period classroom at the High School for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice at Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Campus, the site of Teens for Food Justice’s newest in-school hydroponic farm. In anticipation of starting [...]

By: Matthew Horgan Originally published in Sustain Everyone on August 9th, 2019 Ever have the urge to grow something green? Since most of us live in cities, access to space to grow plants is practically non-existent, and soils are often contaminated with heavy metals and other industrial pollutants. Despite these conditions, people are using [...]

Expanding food access in the communities we serve and empowering youth to lead this charge is intrinsic to Teens for Food Justice’s (TFFJ) mission. In Brownsville, Brooklyn we’re well on our way thanks to an incredible group of young people that have enthusiastically taken up the challenge. Beginning last fall, [...]

This campaign will engage 45 TFFJ Teens from Brooklyn, and the Bronx, where TFFJ currently runs youth-led hydroponic farms and health, food justice and advocacy programming. Teens for Food Justice has joined forces with the American Heart Association to launch a comprehensive youth-led advocacy campaign focused on increasing the availability [...]

New school year, new programs, and a brand new farm! Teens for Food Justice is launching into another school year with exciting new programming in Brooklyn and the Bronx and a new high capacity hydroponic farm that will grow over 15,000 lbs of produce annually at Brownsville Collaborative Middle School [...]

Researchers have begun asking children about their households’ lack of food—and making surprising discoveries. By Lela Nargi Originally Published in Civil Eats   Starting midway through my sixth-grade year, off and on for three years, my mother and I were food insecure. This began when my mother left my father, then [...]

Unfortunately, for over 13 million kids in this country, going to school hungry is the norm. One in five children in the United States lives in food insecure households, which means they lack consistent access to enough food. By Jaimie Seaton Originally Published in Washington Post   Every once in a [...]

Micronutrients — which consist of vitamins and minerals — are essential for “development, disease prevention and the overall well-being of children.” According to the CDC, in fact, “at least half of children worldwide ages 6 months to 5 years” suffer from at least one micronutrient deficiency, if not more. By RYOT Studio [...]