Teens for Food Justice (TFFJ) is building a food-secure future through school-based, youth-led hydroponic farming, providing local, sustainably-grown produce to food desert communities, and building health, education, and opportunity equity. TFFJ trains students in Title I middle and high schools to maintain indoor hydroponic farms through hands-on farm education in STEM, health, and culinary curricular day classes, as well as food justice and nutrition-focused afterschool programming.
TFFJ’s farm-in-school model not only improves immediate food access but also equips youth from marginalized communities with tools to become leaders and advocates in shaping equitable food systems change. Student-grown produce is served daily at school lunch, distributed biweekly to campus families, and distributed to the surrounding community’s food-insecure residents, making healthy food available where it is most lacking in underresourced communities of color.
