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2021 Summer Youth Employment Program
JBOLC collaborated again with Kingsbridge Heights Community Center to beautify the JBOLC Garden Community Farmers Market site. A big thanks to you all! It was really fun to work with you. We appreciate your hard work and were blessed to get to know wonderful yourselves.
2020 Summer Youth Employment Program
In collaboration with Kingsbridge Heights Community Center, we had youth interns every Wednesday for the past 5 weeks. They worked really hard under burning sun and high humidity to beautify the JBOLC Garden Community Farmers Market site.
It is so clean and beautiful and inviting - and they did it without noisy machines - but with youth power and dedication!

THANK YOU SO MUCH and wishing you all wonderful journeys!
2018 Summer Youth Employment Program
In collaboration with Teens For Food Justice and the Transition and College Access Center, whose Bronx headquarters is now based at DeWitt Clinton High School, we hosted our first Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) in 2018 and it was a great success.

Fifteen students rotated through three interrelated work programs either working outside in the gardens, inside on the hydroponics farm or within our community doing food justice advocacy.
We also succeeded at establishing our youth market in which we sold produce grown right on our campus.

In gardens and edible forest, they learn hands-on skills and knowledge on how to grow food with efficiency in a sustainable way in an urban settings by helping us to maintain gardens, build new gardens, plant/save seeds, transplant seedlings, and harvesting and preparing produce to sell in the Youth market.
We plan to continue this program in the summer of 2020.
JAMES BALDWIN OUTDOOR LEARNING CENTER