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How would a city kid know how to milk a goat? Or grow fresh spinach?
Steve’s Camp at Horizon Farms in New York just might be the answer. This fresh farm idea for high school teens allow them to jump right into farm life for a unforgettable hands-on experience about living a self-sustainable life. Students learn the camp’s core tenets of how to have a healthy body, healthy heart and a healthy mind.
Many Latino teens live in urban areas within New York that have barriers to living healthy, including food deserts and little access to open green space. Also, Latino teens are less likely to eat fruits and vegetables and more likely to have diabetes than their non-white peers.
Camp youth learn self-sufficient skills on how to implement healthier cooking at home with cooking classes and the staff teaches the teens how to produce their own food through collecting eggs, picking produce, and feeding the livestock. The camp also helps teens find time to do yoga, ride horses, and learn about the importance of healthy changes in daily routines.
The staff have seen the students lose weight over the years and have also seen students become interested in their eating habits, even so far as to working toward college degrees that are related to farming and agriculture.
To learn more about how the camp is growing healthy change for students across New York, click here to read the full article from Civil eats.
By The Numbers
1
Supermarket
for every Latino neighborhood, compared to 3 for every non-Latino neighborhood
