As interest grows in sustainable living and local foods, the demand for farmers will increase. Enter Debbie Weingarten (right) and Shanti Sellz (left), the youth education coordinator and the youth garden coordinator, respectively, at the Marana Heritage Farm’s Youth Farm Project. Weingarten says that only 3 percent of U.S. farmers are younger than 35. She and Sellz would like to change that, and they hope their apprenticeship and internship programs can also teach kids about where our food comes from, and how to be leaders in their community.
You can read the entire story by Mari Herreras of the Tucson Weekly here.
For more info, visit The Community Food Bank here, or call (520) 873-7401.
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