Youth getting mentored in agriculture through Sudbury Shared Harvest program
Sudbury Shared Harvest is running a new program called Youth Agricultural Mentors (YAM), for teens aged 15 to 18. The teens will spend 8 weeks at a garden at École secondaire Hanmer, and will get paid during that placement, through a YMCA job training program.
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Five teenagers are learning how to grow their own food through the YAM program, and getting paid to do it
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Posted: Jul 28, 2021 4:00 PM ET | Last Updated: July 28
Five teenagers are part of the Sudbury Shared Harvest s new program called Youth Agricultural Mentors (YAM). They will spend eight weeks learning how to grow food, and make a business out of it.(Submitted by Sudbury Shared Harvest)
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Sudbury Shared Harvest is seeking public input as it develops a plan to guide the organization into the future.
Everyone who completes a short survey will be eligible to win $100 in gardening services from Sudbury Shared Harvest’s new social enterprise (for more information, see bit.ly/2QZRq97). The survey link is here: bit.ly/3hZfqnH.
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The strategic planning process is part of a six-month project funded by a $56,000 Resilient Communities Fund grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, which will strengthen the organization’s ability to establish and sustain urban agriculture projects in the coming years.
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