Grow Youngstown

The Mission

To create a healthy, socially just, economically viable and inter-dependent local food system promoting the sustainable growth of food, forest, forage and fuel. We are dedicated to reducing our carbon imprint, raising local agricultural skills and resources in Youngstown and neighboring communities.

Areas of Focus

Direct Market Adminstrative Support
Urban Agricultural Land Development
Education
Food Policy

The Vision

We envision Youngstown as a model for food security, employing urban agriculture, waste reduction, and resource re-use. With the leadership of Grow Youngstown, the city will establish local and direct markets and distribution systems that provide meaningful work opportunities and build on the strong bonds among generations, organizations, activists, and cultures to foster stewardship of the environment and the economy for future generations.

Our Supporters

Grow Youngstown has received support from the Raymond John Wean Foundation, the Nathalie and James Andrews Foundation and private donations. Our fundraising goal for 2009 is $87,000.00. In kind material contributions have been provided by Sullivan's Quarter Horses, Turning Counciling, Common Wealth, Inc., Caribou Coffee, The Center for Urban and Regional Studies YSU, Fellows Riverside Gardens - Mill Creek MetroParks, Winslows and the Rust Belt Brewery. In kind services have been provided by numerous individuals whose passion, labor and spirit sustain everything that we do.

News Bites

Growing More than Good Food
Sherry Linkon of Lincoln Avenue interviews Elsa Higby. Aired on May 6, 2009. (Audio file)

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil- screened March 20, 2009 - Garden Cafe, Fellows Riverside Garden.

Introduction to Permaculture Design with Josh Beniston, on March 21, and 22nd. "As a system of design, Permaculture provides a new vocabulary and pattern language for observation and action, attention and listening, that empowers people to co-design homes, neighborhoods, and communities full of truly abundant food, energy, habitat, water, income, and yields enough to share." Keith Johnson, permaculture designer. Please contact csa@growyoungstown.org.

Bates-Manzano Fund a joint venture between Grow Youngstown and Etruscan Press, the has been established to bring agricultural and literary figures to Youngstown.