Tag: Community Garden
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Careers for Mid-City Youth Sprout From Unlikely Place
A nonprofit that helps youth find jobs after being arrested has jumped on the food movement bandwagon. It’s using gardening to teach at-risk youth responsibility and help springboard them into the local food industry. Speak City Heights intern Bianca Bruno speaks to three program graduates whose careers are just beginning to sprout. | Video Credit:…
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Tweet City Heights: Women-only Swim Makes The Huffington Post
By Megan Burks Women-only Swim Makes The Huffington Post The Huffington Post and U-T San Diego ran commentary on the flap over my article on women-only swim hours at the Copley Family YMCA this week. Professors Avi Spiegel and Adina Batnitzky coauthored the piece, saying the story only garnered harsh reactions because the women who…
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Students Plant Garden Boxes for Needy
By Katelyn Anacona, James Burrell, Mark Duvall, Starz Loreto and Julissa Mora The following video was produced by youth in the Media Arts Center San Diego’s Teen Producers Project.
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Teen Producers Visit Crawford Garden
By Katelyn Anacona, James Burrell, Mark Duvall, Starz Loreto and Julissa Mora The following video was produced by youth in the Media Arts Center San Diego’s Teen Producers Project.
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Cultivating Community in Southeast SD
Diane Moss is executive director of Project New Village, a nonprofit that recently broke ground on its first community garden in Mount Hope. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido For more than 20 years, Diane Moss ran a teen pregnancy prevention program in southeastern San Diego’s low income, largely African-American and Latino neighborhoods.…