There is something truly calming and grounding about growing and tending to a garden at home. This has been ever more important in this time of a pandemic. I am grateful to have been involved in work with Teens for Food Justice over the past few years, where more recently, my team and I devised a plan to get at home hydroponic growing kits to students around NYC during remote/virtual learning.

Feel free to read about this experience here on TFFJ’s blog:

TFFJ Helps Students Continue Hydroponic Farming and Food Justice Education at Home During the Pandemic

I was also so fortunate to have made it onto the Hunter College New York City Food Policy Center’s annual class of New York City’s 40 individuals under 40 years old who are working to transform and improve the food system, check it out here:

40 Under 40: The Rising Stars in NYC Food Policy (Class of 2021)

Follow our journey this year as we reopen TFFJ’s hydroponic farms based in public schools around NYC and resume in-person programming around hydroponics, urban farming, environmental sustainability, food justice & advocacy:

TFFJ’s instagram:

@TeensforFoodJustice

My personal IG’s:

@hydroponics.NYC

&

@matthew_gerard_