Camp Journey Urban Farm Project
Watch as Camp Journey’s youth rehab and transform our field into an Urban Cornucopia!
Leader
Malikah Adu Niasse
Location
3600 East 131st Cleveland, OH 44120
About the project
Camp Journey will provide daily services which: (1) Serve as a community location for healthy food programs & meals for seniors and families; (2) Improve physical health through farming activity; (3) Serve as a food preparation and nutrition programs to increase health among community residents; and (4) Increase number of youth who are exposed to, prepared and proficient to adopt advanced technologies and to be value-added participants in the STREAM and STREAM-related workforce.
The Steps
- Rehabilitate the current high tunnel (roof and plumbing)
- Transplant starter plants to high tunnel
- Maintain high tunnel and plant beds
- Harvest
- Provide healthy cooking events for local residents
Why we‘re doing it
Healthy, productive urban farms and gardens are more important than ever considering the non-sustainable; environmentally (locally, regionally and globally) destructive; and/or sub-nutritional producing industrial farms. In addition, the agricultural distribution system, especially to underserved and vulnerable communities, is not meeting healthy human nutritional needs. This malnutritive environment is especially true for children, when nutritional intake is critical to their complete physical and intellectual development.