The Mission
To create a healthy, socially just, economically viable and inter-dependent local food system promoting the sustainable growth of food, forest, forage and fuel. We are dedicated to reducing our carbon imprint, raising local agricultural skills and resources in Youngstown and neighboring communities.
Areas of Focus
- Direct Market Adminstrative Support
- Urban Agricultural Land Development
- Education
- Food Policy
The Vision
We envision Youngstown as a model for food security that employs urban agriculture, waste reduction, and resource re-use. With the leadership of Grow Youngstown, the city will be a center of local and direct markets, small plot agricultural production and processing, and meaningful work opportunities. This return to our agricultural heritage as a means of strengthening our health and economic security will create opportunities for people of many generations, organizations, and cultures to build relationships and care for the environment.
Our Supporters
Grow Youngstown has received support from the Raymond John Wean Foundation, the Nathalie and James Andrews Foundation and private donations. Our fundraising goal for 2009 is $87,000.00. In kind material contributions have been provided by Sullivan's Quarter Horses, Turning Counciling, Common Wealth, Inc., Caribou Coffee, The Center for Urban and Regional Studies, YSU, Fellows Riverside Gardens - Mill Creek MetroParks, Winslows and the Rust Belt Brewery. In kind services have been provided by numerous individuals whose passion, labor and spirit sustain everything that we do.
News Bites
5/12 - The Living Land 6:30pm, Fellows Riverside Gardens
6/23 - Beyond Organic 6:30pm, Fellows Riverside Gardens
7/22 - The Future of Food 7pm, Cortland Wine Cellar .
Will Allen most recently written up in the NYT for his work in Milwaukee with Growing Power, will be the keynote speaker at Youngstown's 2nd annual Grey to Green Festival.Sherry Linkon of Lincoln Avenue interviews Elsa Higby. Aired on May 6, 2009. (Audio file)