Teens Grow to Give raise awareness of food insecurity

GROW FOOD, FIGHT HUNGER TOGETHER

FIGHT HUNGER WITH OUR OWN HANDS - GROW TO GIVE

TEENS CAN HELP

GROW FOOD, GROW COMMUITY, GROW FRIENDSHIP. TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE THE WORLD BETTER.

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HELP THE CAUSE

RAISING AWARENESS FOR FOOD INSECURITY

Two million children die every year from malnutrition.

Together, we can save lives and create a world free from hunger.

At Teens Give and Grow, we want to create accessible posts and infographics to help teens learn about the Hunger Crisis we face today. We want to help the cause by:

Engage, Educate and Empower

Teen Community

At Teens Grow to Give, we strive to provide teens with inspiring stories of our community heroes, with reliable, accurate information about community gardening, volunteering opportunities and easy access to creditable non-profit organizations that supporting this movement for donations.

Hunger affects 828 million people, impacting children and women worst and first.
Food insecurity exists in every county cross the United States, from the poorest neighborhood to the most affluent.
Parents skip meals so they can feed their children, seniors choose between buying medicine and food, and students decide between their education and food.

Together we can help

38 MILLION

Americans are food insecure today About 650,000 of them live in

NEW JERSEY STATE

14 MILLION KIDS Under 5

Suffer from Severe Malnutrition, the deadliest form of Hunger. 175,000 New Jersey Kids don't have enough food to eat every day.

60% of the world's hungry

Are women and girls!

9% of children in New Jersey are food insecure! 22% of kids in South Jersey face hunger

TAKE ACTION

Donate time

You can help by donating time in volunteer opportunities!

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Friendly support

Our You can support the cause by donating food, hosting food drives or awareness events.

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Grow Together

Grow with your fellow students and friends in school garden or community garden!

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Let us grow together!

Read stories about our community heroes !

At the Donald J Richey Elementary School garden in Delaware, students get to watch the entire life cycle of a plant and their harvest is big enough to share with the community

Dr. Stephanie Armstrong,Kathy Andrezjewski, & Gregg Johnson

With community support and some concerted teamwork, Michele Sgambelluri and a number of volunteers have managed to turn the garden into an abundantly productive enterprise. Serving local residents who want to cultivate their own garden beds, this thriving community garden weathered the COVID days and continues to thrive.

Michele Sgambelluri &
Vicki Matsumonji

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Geoffrey Johnson , a proud member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, took to his mission to elevate the lives of others. Geoffrey revived and reconstituted two lots of badly damaged soil and turned them into a flourishing public garden.

Geoffrey Johnson

How to start a school garden

School gardens are blossoming across the country. Over the past decade, school gardens have grown from a rarity to a well-known concept that continues to gain traction in schools small and large, public and private, rural and urban.
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American Grow a Row

See how family garden grow to be a farm that serve millions of people with food!

America’s Grow-a-Row impacts many lives through a volunteer effort of planting, picking, rescuing, and delivering free fresh produce.
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Design Gardens for Teens

If you’ve been wanting to get your teens in the garden, teenage garden design is a way to accomplish that end. Instead of forcing your teens out into the family garden, you create teen hangout gardens for them to enjoy.

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Harlem's Community Garden help youth

Watch this touching video to see how a community garden inner city children blossom into their futures!
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Grow food in a Bag!

No land to grow for a garden? Dont worry, setting up a few grow bags could be a perfect solution for you.
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Plant Library

Dont know anything about plants? Choose the flowers and plants in this plant libray and you will grow a bounty!
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Explore Our Grow Center

Grow one bag of Potato

Learning how to grow potatoes in a bag will open up a whole new world of gardening potential. An extremely easy vegetable to grow, potatoes offer a high-yield for very low output - they're a great choice if you're new to growing your own vegetables. Find out how to grow potatoes with our step-by-step guide – perfect for your vegetable garden ideas." - BY HOLLY REANEY PUBLISHED 3 OCTOBER 2021

FIGHT HUNGER WITH OUR OWN HANDS - GROW TO GIVE

TEENS CAN HELP