Spotted: Brainfood Urban Garden
While walking in the neighborhood the other day, I noticed a thriving urban garden. A little sign nearby said Brainfood Innovation Center. Not knowing anything about Brainfood, I looked it up. According to Brainfood’s web site, the organization is a non-profit youth development organization originally founded in 1999 that uses “food as a tool to build life skills and promote healthy living in a fun and safe environment.”
Brainfood offers year-long after school programs that teach “life skills and leadership skills using food and cooking,” as well as an advanced program where those leadership skills are then applied “to plan, facilitate, and deliver healthy cooking workshops to the DC community.”
The urban garden I stumbled upon at 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW was started in 2012 and is part of the Innovation Center. Here, participants have the “opportunity to participate in small-scale urban food production” and use that produce to “supply both Brainfood programs and cooking workshops led by our Community MVPs class.”
There is also another Brainfood location in Chinatown at 755 8th St. NW.
If food is the language of your life, consider supporting the Brainfood program or volunteering your time. Click here for more information.
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