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January 11, 2021
Teens for Food Justice was featured as one of the NYS Health Foundation’s targeted COVID-19 response grants. Teens for Food Justice will partner with community kitchens to provide fresh, nutritious food to food-insecure residents of Brownsville, Brooklyn. Click here to read more…
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November 25, 2020
Teens for Food Justice was featured in BKReader on November 25th, 2020. Teens for Food Justice, Collective Fare and Brooklyn Community Collaborative handed out more than 600 meals over the past week. Click here to read the full article…
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November 5, 2020
Teens for Food Justice was featured in The Packer on November 5th, 2020. Bowery Farm partnered with Teens for Food Justice in their community food distributions in New York City. Click here to read the full article…
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October 20, 2020
Teens for Food Justice was featured in AARP on October 20th, 2020. Teens for Food Justice takes a multi-pronged, wraparound approach to ending food inequity. It’s a 360-degree experience for the teens who build and run indoor hydroponic farms in their schools – farms that can yield up to 14,000…
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April 6, 2020
Teens for Food Justice was featured in Thrive Global on April 6th, 2020. “From the shuttered farms, TFFJ harvested about 1,000 pounds of lettuce, micro-green, herbs and more. Some went to community partners, some to neighborhood families.” Click here to read the full article…
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March 25, 2020
Katherine Soll, Teens for Food Justice’s CEO/President was featured in Hunter College New York City Food Policy Center on March 25th, 2020. “Teens for Food Justice is a disrupter—of agriculture methods, of educational practice, of food systems. We were ahead of the curve and there wasn’t widespread understanding of how…
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March 19, 2020
Teens For Food Justice was featured in Now This on March 16th, 2020. “Food insecurity was an issue that students were really concerned about, and TFFJ started to think, ‘what are the ways in which we can empower young people to address this problem?’ You can start with what they…
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March 5, 2020
Teens For Food Justice was featured in Hortidaily on March 5th, 2020. “Just last month, students harvested over 700 pounds of fresh produce, serving them in the school cafeteria during lunch. The successful launch had put them on track to grow over 10,000 pounds of produce for their school and…
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March 5, 2020
Teens For Food Justice was featured in Caribbean Life News on March 5th, 2020. ” Teens For Food Justice distributes fresh vegetables to BMS patients from their hydroponic farm at Brownsville Collaborative Middle School” Click here to read the full article…
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March 3, 2020
Teens For Food Justice was featured in Produce Market Guide on March 3rd, 2020. “The MLK farm will provide real-world opportunities for students to apply the concepts they learn in classes like biology and chemistry. It also creates an indelible understanding of how food grows. When students understand and participate…
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