The Watch Us Grow (WUG) Project is a collaborative amongst Building Youth Tomorrow Today (BYTT), Fresno Freedom School (FS), and African American Farmers of California (AAFC) youth members. The young members established the WUG project to educate underserved students and communities on specialty crops.
This project was merged with agricultural programs to promote and increase participation from local groups such as: Fresno Freedom School, Boys & Girls Clubs of Fresno, and Fresno Unified School District to develop a vocational trade of gardening/planting, harvesting, and preparing specialty crops for consumption.
Participants of the WUG project learn how to: Prepare the soil, install irrigation drip lines and mulching film, and plant specialty crops at partnering WUG demonstration farm sites Weekly maintenance of specialty crops is performed by Site Coordinators, volunteers, and youth participants WUG participant's ages range on average from 4 to 18 years of age. Our oldest participant is 101 years old!
WUG youth participants are active in every stage of growing, harvesting, cooking and consuming products made from specialty crops
Participants get the opportunity to create and recipe and a product from the harvest.
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