Recently, a group of TFP staff and youth went to the 2005 Community Food Security Conference in Atlanta. Jared was one of the TFP youth that attended.

I learned that there are so many organizations like The Food Project and that they all are similar in some way. This is important to know because we need to know that other people are doing this all over the country. From this conference I learned that people at the CFSC Conference actually care about the youth and think they are very important. This happened on many occasions throughout the conference when multiple people connected with the youth team.

A challenge for me at the conference was reaching out and instigating conversations with strangers. My number one goal for this conference was to learn as much as I could about food security so that I could teach DIRT X about it, and I think that that knowledge will give them a better sense of the work they do, and let them know that they are all part of a movement.