World Ark Magazine - January/February 2009 - (Page 29) B w w w. H E I F E r . O rG and those who haven’t spent much time anywhere else. It is four weeks into the eight-week program. The 60 high school students, who at first tended to socialize with people from their own neighborhoods and schools, are beginning to find friends across those lines. As assistant leader of Crew C, a group of 12, Lennie has the delicate job of keeping his charges on task as well as creating, as he BOSTON—ON a SwelTeriNg mOrNiNg iN July, on a plot of land in a low-income neighborhood, a 15-year-old named Lennie Johnson stands on a small mountain of compost, holding court. Shovel in hand, kerchief on head, he looks like a modern-day American Gothic, anomalous but somehow at home. “Everyone remember the basics on how to shovel compost?” he asks his crew, half a dozen 14- and 15-year-olds, most of whom have never farmed before this summer. Everyone is looking a little wilted in the heat. “I’ve never shoveled compost,” says a girl in a red headband. “OK,” says Lennie encouragingly. “You’re just going to grab a bucket and shovel, fill the bucket”—he demonstrates swiftly—“and voila.” He dumps the bucket onto what will become a row of beans. Lennie is an assistant crew leader for the summer program of the Food Project, in which teenagers from suburbs and inner-city neighborhoods work together on urban farms, running farmers markets and serving their produce at homeless shelters and soup kitchens. The program is an intensive, hands-on education in sustainable farming and local food systems. It is also designed to forge a close and productive community out of this disparate group of teenagers, which includes those who have never set foot in this kind of down-at-the-heels neighborhood, Lennie Johnson, (left and above) wearing the white head scarf, supervises his crew members as they collect compost. JAnuAr Y/F E bruAr Y 2009 | wOr Ld A r K 29 http://www.heifer.org
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