Bloom Youth Project is a (nearly) two year, paid internship adventure that uses Bloom Community Farm as its workspace. Bloom Youth come together to grow food, cook meals, and run a mobile market while learning about themselves, making friends, developing skills, working hard, giving back, and having fun.
Welcoming the 2021 Bloom Youth interns
We’re so excited to have this amazing team of young people working with us, and we can’t wait to see all that they cook, grow, and learn this season!
Alfonso
What is one strength that Bloom Youth Project has helped you to cultivate?
“My work ethic. Dealing with and overcoming all the difficult and rigorous situations has made me work harder to achieve my goals.”
Betzy
What do you love most about our community?
“What I love about our community is that we are diverse! Even if we look different or come from somewhere else, we are all kind to each other and work together.”
Joanna
What is one strength that Bloom Youth Project has helped you cultivate?
“BYP has helped me by trying new things and being more adventurous in trying new foods and planting new crops!”
Jamie
What is one strength that Bloom Youth Project has helped you to cultivate?
“Confidence and leadership are strengths that BYP has been integral in helping me develop. I tend to be quite reserved, but BYP has given me a safe space to explore my skills as a leader.”
Vanessa
What is your favorite food memory?
“During one of my vacays in Peru when I was about 5 years old, I saw brown sugar for the first time and refused to eat it because ‘it was dirty’ even though everyone was drinking hot chocolate!”
Jocelyn
If you were a fruit or vegetable, what would you be and why?
“If I were a fruit or vegetable, I would be a cucumber because I love the hot weather. Cucumbers are also refreshing and cool which I would love to be.”
Miguel
What is one strength that Bloom Youth Project has helped you cultivate?
“One strength that I have developed very well is my knife skills. I went from barely being able to cut an onion properly to being able to cut an onion multiple different ways, and perfectly!”
Thanks to the generous support of donors who made this tremendous growth possible.
