South Plains Food
 Bank Grub Youth
     Program
 Growing Recruits
 for Urban
 Business
             BY
DEBBIE CLINE, FARM MANAGER
KRISTA SANDERS, GRUB INTERN
 KOZIE BACIO, GRUB INTERN
Food Bank
received
Farm Land in
1989


Roy Riddle
Started
growing
various
vegetables     The Beginnings of
               GRUB……
Grub Past: Began in 2001
Grub continued to Grow!!
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Academic
Year Program


Summer
Work
Program


Nutritional
Model          Grub Present
Academic
Year Program
-Finance
Class
-Creating A
Resume
--Life Skills

-- Fitness
                Grub Present
Academic Year
Program
-Spring
semester
-- Learn field
work such as
-Irrigation and

Spraying
fertilizer
                  Grub Present
Academic
Year Program
Friends &
Family Day




               Grub Present
Academic
Year Program
Friends &
Family Day




               Grub Present
Academic
Year Program


Summer
Work
Program



               Grub Present
Academic
Year Program


Summer
Work
Program
- Harvesting

               Grub Present
Academic
Year Program


Summer
Work
Program
- Washing
Mesclun
               Grub Present
Academic
Year Program


Summer
Work
Program-
Bagging
Black-eye
peas           Grub Present
Academic
Year Program


Summer
Work
Program-
Weighting
totals
               Grub Present
New Cooler to hold produce-
recieved last year in a grant
Academic
Year Program


Summer
Work
Program


Nutritional
               Grub Present
Model
Academic
Year Program


Summer
Work
Program


Nutritional
               Grub Present
Model
Academic
Year Program


Summer
Work
Program


Nutritional
               Grub Present
Model
Academic
Year Program


Summer
Work
Program


Nutritional
Model          Grub Present
GRUB FUTURE
Goal is to Hire 30 Kids for Summer
program
Food




       GRUB: Sharing with the
       Community
Food
SPFB: 50% of
the Farm’s
crop goes to
Food Bank
and Kids Café


Neighbors:
CSA’s and
Downtown
Art Market
MOM at the Downtown Farmer’s Market
Grub Scrub




             Value Added Products
Luffa Arbor
Grub Scrub
Part of the
Process
Raised
Beds
Pepper Jelly




               Value Added Product
Diabetes
Walk




           Volunteerism:
Diabetes
Walk
Arboretum




            Volunteerism:
Diabetes
Walk
Arboretum




            Volunteerism:
Diabetes
Walk
Arboretum
Stuff the Bus
Work with
Kids in the
Community
                Volunteerism:
Diabetes
Walk
Arboretum
Stuff the Bus
Work with
Kids in the
Community
Raised Beds
Diabetes Walk
Arboretum
Stuff the Bus
Work with
Kids at the
Farm
Raised Beds
Low Income
Senior
Apartments-
Free Veggies    Volunteerism:
Where do we
find our kids?




                 Growing Kids:
Where do we
find our kids?
What are our
expectations
of GRUB
Kids?




                 Plant seeds
Where do we
find our kids?
What are our
expectations
of GRUB
Kids?




                 Understand Irrigation
Where do we
find our kids?
What are our
expectations
of GRUB
Kids?




                 Take notes
Where do we
find our kids?
What are our
expectations
of GRUB
Kids?




                 Listen!!!
Where do we
find our kids?
What are our
expectations of
GRUB Kids?
What can
GRUB kids
expect from
SPFB staff?
GRUB is not
all work and no   Growing Kids:
play!!!!
Conferences and
Field Trips
Ex: Rooted in
Community Conference




                       GRUB Play:
Rooted in Community conference
Conferences and
Field Trips
Ex: Rooted in
Community Conference

Camping Out




                       GRUB Play:
Camping out: Roughing it with RV’s
Camping Out: Bug collecting
Hiking
Camping out: Finding Caves
Conferences and
Field Trips
Ex: Rooted in
Community Conference

Camping Out
Swimming
Team
Building/Ropes
Course


                       GRUB Play
Walk the plank: Involved trusting our team members.
Worked with an
onion specialist
Work with
Texas A &M on
High Tunnel
research
Learning to
market veggies
and value added
products
Have special
classes on crafts
                    Unique Opportunities
Gourd painting
Grapevine
Wreaths
Circumstances




                Grub: Facing Adversity
Circumstances
Flood




                Grub: Facing Adversity
Circumstances
Flood
Drought/Heat
Hail
Freezes




                Grub: Facing Adversity
Circumstances
Flood
Drought
Hail
Freezes
Insects




                Grub: Facing Adversity
Farm
tables for
organizing
CSA
produce



             Grub: Gives back to farm
Grub Kids working on new tables
Tables hold produce perfectly
Questions?

Southern SAWG- Grub youth program

Editor's Notes

  • #3 The idea for GRUB was originated by Roy Riddle, Gerre Sears, and Tom and Nancy Beck on a return trip from the American Community Gardening Association conference in approximately 1998.
  • #5 The South Plains Food Bank applied for and was awarded a USDA Community Food Projects grant in 2000 for $150,000. http://www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/food/pdfs/cfp_2003_annrpt.pdf (see page 65)A Criminal Justice Division Grant from the State of Texas was also awarded to the City of Lubbock and the South Plains Food Bank for the GRUB Program.
  • #8 Kids arerequired to be in school to be accepted into the Grub program versus drop outs getting their GED.
  • #9 Kids arerequired to be in school to be accepted into the Grub program versus drop outs getting their GED.
  • #10 Kids arerequired to be in school to be accepted into the Grub program versus drop outs getting their GED.
  • #44 Grub kids helping install a raised bed
  • #45 Happy Customer
  • #77 Flooding continues to be our number one environmental destruction. Being in a flood zone next to a Texas Department of Transportation bioretention pond has caused the farm to be flooded 3 times in the last 10 years.
  • #78 Flooding continues to be our number one environmental destruction. Being in a flood zone next to a Texas Department of Transportation bioretention pond has caused the farm to be flooded 3 times in the last 10 years.
  • #81 Flooding continues to be our number one environmental destruction. Being in a flood zone next to a Texas Department of Transportation bioretention pond has caused the farm to be flooded 3 times in the last 10 years.
  • #82 Flooding continues to be our number one environmental destruction. Being in a flood zone next to a Texas Department of Transportation bioretention pond has caused the farm to be flooded 3 times in the last 10 years.