Growing Organic with Earthkeepers

Between the raised beds and the produce stand, three teenage gardeners take their positions. Do I know Carly Rae Jepson’s song “Call Me Maybe”, they ask. I shrug, looking puzzled. You’ll recognize it, they assure me.

Someone’s fingers snap them into motion. Arms and legs in synch, they dance and sing their version, “Food Justice Baby.” They wrote and choreographed this variation at July’s Rooted in Community Leadership Summit in Iowa.

Alia Walker hands me the summit’s Youth Food Bill of Rights about community food security. In part, it reads “We envision a food system that will respect our identities while providing us equal access to basic human rights. We, the youth, are committed to these rights and believe that all people locally, nationally, and globally are entitled to healthy food.”

Read more and comment here and on the NGA blog: http://www.garden.org/regional/report/current/13