 We're back on the west coast featuring United Roots Oakland, a community that seeks "to create a healing space for youth to gather, create a community hub for people to do collaborative projects with youth, and launch a Youth HUB that will support youth entrepreneurs doing ventures". More at http://unitedrootsoakland.org/. Follow @unitedroots | https://twitter.com/unitedroots. Part of a youth/food group like United Roots and want to share your thoughts on the future of the food justice movement? We welcome them on our 20-question survey at http://liverealnow.weebly.com/shaping-our-future.html.
 We're featuring SEEDS's DIG Program in Durham, North Carolina, "a youth-driven, urban farming leadership development program...[which] empowers teens by teaching organic gardening, sound business practices, healthy food choices and food security values. The program emphasizes sustainable living and growing practices, ecological balance, and the natural recycling of organic materials for plant health and nourishment. DIG youth are paid a stipend to cultivate fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, and mushrooms, which they sell at the Durham Farmer’s Market and make available to [their] neighbors." Major props to SEEDS for inspiring Bring Healthy Back! More at http://www.seedsnc.org/dig/about-dig/. If you're part of a youth/food group or organization and have thoughts about the food justice movement, share your's today like SEEDS on our 20-question survey: http://liverealnow.weebly.com/shaping-our-future.html. Photo: SEEDS
 We're jumping to the east coast now, featuring Nuestras Raices, a "grassroots organization that promotes economic, human and community development in Holyoke, Massachusetts through projects relating to food, agriculture and the environment". Their youth projects aim to increase food justice literacy, exposure to entrepreneurship, and youth agricultural knowledge. More at http://www.nuestras-raices.org/ Are you part of a group or org like Nuestras Raices and have thoughts about the future of the food justice movement? Share your's today witha 20-question survey: http://liverealnow.weebly.com/shaping-our-future.html.
 Today, we're featuring City Slicker Farms, "empowering West Oakland residents, especially youth, to become leaders within our community and the food movement" by "decreasing the incidence of disease, improving health, and increasing economic and food self-sufficiency for West Oakland residents".
More at http://www.cityslickerfarms.org/.
Work at a youth/food justice organization? Help shape the future of the food movement like City Slicker Farms with a 20-question survey: http://liverealnow.weebly.com/shaping-our-future.html.
Photo: City Slicker Farms.
Today, we're featuring the Sustainable Urban Design Academy (SUDA) at Castlemont High School in Oakland, CA, as part of the Oakland Unified School District. Founded in 2010, SUDA is mentoring program that pairs high school students with caring adults who assist them in bettering their grades and exploring higher education and career options. One of those options is their food justice program, where they explore eco-apartheid through sustainable urban design with equity, environment and economy themes. More at http://www.thrivingstudents.org/. Props to SUDA for sharing thoughts on Live Real's 20-question survey on next steps for the youth food movement! We invite folks working with food and youth development to do the same: http://liverealnow.weebly.com/shaping-our-future.html. Video: Timothy Bremner
 Today, we're featuring UPROSE, United Puerto Rican Organization of Sunset Park (UPROSE)! UPROSE "is an environmental justice and social justice community based organization located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Founded in 1964, UPROSE is Brooklyn’s oldest latino community organization." UPROSE is "a multiracial, multicultural and intergenerational organization dedicated to facilitating broad and converging sustainable development and youth justice campaigns. Currently, they are building community power through broad and converging campaigns/projects, developing local indigenous leadership, and fighting for social, environmental, food, and transportation justice. More at http://uprose.org/. Be their Facebook friend: https://www.facebook.com/uprose. Follow @UPROSE: https://twitter.com/UPROSE Many thanks to them for sharing thoughts on Live Real's 20-question survey on next steps for the youth food movement! We invite folks working with food and youth development to do the same: http://liverealnow.weebly.com/shaping-our-future.html. Photo: UPROSE
We're giving props today to Oakland-based youth-social-entrepreneurship program Youth SEED, formerly Ashoka's Youth Venture San Francisco Bay Area. "Our current focus is in redeveloping our program into Youth SEED. The strength of our program is in supporting the vision and passion of young people. They lead and we support. Where we are currently organizing is in supporting the adult population to better support our young people." Check out this video of Paul and Kevin with Oakland Food Connection, two youth who went through this program in 2011! Many thanks to Youth SEED for sharing thoughts on Live Real's 20-question survey on next steps for the youth food movement! We invite folks working with food and youth development to do the same: http://liverealnow.weebly.com/shaping-our-future.html. Video: Ballad Center.
 This winter, we're featuring awesome youth food justice crews across the country who're livin' real! Today, we're giving props to the Philadelphia Urban Creators, who "are a group of young people who are fostering healthy relationships with Philadelphia communities in order to develop our neighborhoods sustainably and equitably, FROM THE GROUND UP! Through community organizing, service-learning, artistic expression, and urban agriculture, we seek to unite, as well as educate, energize, and empower Philadelphia youth, ex-offenders, and communities with the skills, resources, networks, and analysis to become passionate leaders in the movement to transform blighted urban landscapes into models of community-based, social and environmental sustainability." Check out more of them here: http://phillyurbancreators.org/. Are you part of a food justice crew like PUC and have thoughts on shaping the next steps of the youth food movement? We invite folks to take 20 minutes on a 20-question survey: http://liverealnow.weebly.com/shaping-our-future.html. Photo: Philadelphia Urban Center.
 Today, we're featuring East New York Farms!, trying to improve access to healthy foods, build local leadership, and increase collaboration of youth and adults in pursuit of food justice. They teach a workshop about food access in East New York, using maps and census data to illustrate food access and health disparities in New York City. They then then visit stores in the neighborhood to ask them to carry healthier food. Check them out at http://www.eastnewyorkfarms.org/. Are you part of a group like ENYF and have thoughts on shaping the next steps of the youth food movement? We invite folks to take 20 minutes on our 20-question survey: http://liverealnow.weebly.com/shaping-our-future.html
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