Brian Farmer works for the Green Teen Community Gardening Program.

On August 6th Green Teen youth organized themselves into 4 groups and set up to do events from 10 am until 4pm. From 10-12 youth were on hand to lead people through the City Seeds garden at Poughkeepsie Farm Project and talk about seed saving and our local seed bank project. From 11-4 at our teaching garden at Family Partnership Center, we did local foods demos (Fresh local peach smoothies and fresh salsa with ingredients fresh picked from our teaching garden) garden tours, herb planting work and seedling give aways.

At Tubman Terrace we did late summer veggie planting (varieties of squash, tomatoes and herbs) and the fresh local fruit smoothies and fresh salsa making demos.

At Beacon Farmer’s Market the youth the youth did pesto making demos, pasta dishes using fresh raw sauces and a basic worm-composting workshop.