Summer 2010

LGE kicks off its 4th annual Healthy Teen Healthy Community internship on June 30. 15 enthusiastic, energetic teens from our school-based program will be working hard to improve their community and themselves.
They will build on their LGE school year experience by:

keeping our vegetable and herb gardens thriving in 3 South Bronx based community gardens
working in teams to develop and implement gardening activities for small children and health and nutrition activities for children, teens and adults
running a weekly farm stand where they will provide customer service, demonstrate how to prepare quick healthy dishes using ingredients from the market, publicize the location of other Bronx-based farmers markets, promote the use of EBT at our market, and oversee a nutrition education table
learning basic meal planning and cooking skills during our weekly group lunches

Interested in sharing your cooking skills with the LGE youth, or discussing your career...? If so, please contact david saphire dsaphire@grownyc.org.

Summer 2009

LGE held its 3rd annual Summer Internship from July 1 – August 13th. 15 students from our school-based program helped create what we feel has been our most productive summer to date. Over 6 weeks the interns learned public speaking, teaching, leadership and teamwork skills while leading over 200 youth through hands-on gardening activities and hosting nutrition education and food demonstration tables at farmers markets and an outdoor health fair. They learned organizational, marketing, and customer service skills at our profitable once per week farmers market. They also learned carpentry skills, honed their art skills and cooked for each other once per week. This year also featured once per week career building workshops for the participating interns.

As LGE evolves it branches more and more into the surrounding community all the while giving our youth the opportunity to develop an array of skills that they can take with them to college and the workplace.

As 2009 summer intern Ashley Rivera so succinctly puts it, “We learn as we teach.”