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Home / Programs / Planting Urban GEMS in South Columbus

Planting Urban GEMS in South Columbus

With support from Ohio State University Connect and Collaborate initiative we are expanding Urban GEMS to Parsons Avenue.

Planting Urban GEMS Youth Work in South Columbus will engage approximately 100 vulnerable youth to empower them in partially addressing food insecurity in their own community by growing healthy foods and contributing to community wellness/healthy eating movement. Planting Urban GEMS will establish an aeroponic food production facility to provide positive youth development opportunities for 14-22 year olds in South Columbus. This Connect and Collaborate funded project melds the innovations and youth engagement of the Urban GEMS initiatives with work of the Parsons Avenue Merchants Association to create greater potential for sustainability and larger community impacts.

Team Lead: 
Deanna Wilkinson, College of Education and Human Ecology

Ohio State Partners:
Office of Diversity and Inclusion

OSU Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male

Department of Biomedical Engineering
College of Education and Human Ecology
OSU Extension

External Partners:
RHH4-Life
Men for the Movement
Ministries 4 Movement
CD4AP
Local Matters
Southside CAN
Family Missionary Baptist Church
Parson’s Avenue Merchant’s Association

Millennium Community School
Pure Motion Creative
Franklin Park Conservatory
Juice Plus/Tower Gardens
Africentric Personnel Development Shop
Nationwide Children’s Hospital Gardens

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    • Urban GEMS -USDA CYFAR
      • Urban GEMS @ Millennium Community School
      • RHH4L -Urban GEMS Garden Club After School
      • RHH4L -Urban GEMS Summer Program
    • Get Involved
    • Urban GEMS Youth Work
      • Urban GEMS Farm on Parsons
    • Planting Urban GEMS in South Columbus
College of Education and Human Ecology

Urban GEMS
1787 Neil Ave, CM 135
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 247-4004
Wilkinson.110@osu.edu

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