Food-insecure youth can be transformed by harvesting free garden food

Evidence

The kids are surprised that the food they harvest is free. They’ve had to pay for everything they’ve ever gotten before. They greet fresh carrots, straight from the ground, with suspicion at first, until they eat one. She is passing on the gift, and the transformation is profound. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 442

Categorization

• SEED: A powerful social-justice angle: urban food pantries on reclaimed lots as repair of the severed gift relationship — directly feeding the Eco-Justice course.
• ADDENDUM: Supports ‘On Sacrifice’/‘Grafting’ interests by showing concrete sites where gift economy returns to degraded urban land.
• XREF: Ties to ch7 gift economy claims and ch16 passing the gift forward — reciprocity in action with marginalized youth. — connects to: Youth work can counter radicalization and protect clients from exploitation — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice: How to Communicate…, 701; Genuine civic participation can transform how a community perceives its young people; Some plants now depend on specific human harvesting practices to survive — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 499

Broader Connections

• Youth work can counter radicalization and protect clients from exploitation #corroborates (0.70) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 701
• Genuine civic participation can transform how a community perceives its young people #corroborates (0.70)
• Some plants now depend on specific human harvesting practices to survive #expands (0.70) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 499