Farming, financial literacy games, Mental Health Mondays, yoga, wood working and cooking there's no shortage of exciting things going on in South St. Pete!

This month we jumped into an AMAZING fun run event put together by St. Pete Run Fest for the 4th of July. We were grateful to benefit from proceeds from the run, but also had a blast participating, meeting runners, giving away free seedlings, and cooling them off at the hydration station with cold water and water guns. Our Collaboration Manager Carla Bristol and Youth Ambassador Semaj even represented us in their pie eating contest!

Speaking of all the fun, we had even MORE fun at the Historic Kenwood Neighborhood Association Kenwood Kids event. We partnered with Historic Kenwood to do a Mini Garden Building Workshop with kids and their families. Nearly 50 mini gardens were made that they got to decorate with paint and pipe cleaners then take home! Thank you Historic Kenwood for continuing to support us and inviting us into your neighborhood.

We continued bringing in more youth programs to visit the farm. This month, we had the Cohort of Champions touring the farm and learning about different edible plants, our hydroponics, and aquaponics. Also Metro Inclusive Health/Metro Youth’s LGBTQ+ Summer Camp came out for a tour and built Mini Gardens.

We had a super productive volunteer workday with 25+ members of Radiant Church St. Pete and our dedicated volunteers who we invited along. It’s amazing how much we can do when people show up to serve and get down in the dirt. Our Youth made farm fresh pesto and bread for our volunteers as well. We had a lot of fun!

Part of July included 2 guest speakers for our Person of Influence series. We had Senator Rouson's legislative aid Andrew Pink join our Youth for lunch. We also had USF Professor and social scientist Dr. Micah Johnson pay our youth a visit.