What’s Next For YouthBuild?
As we look towards the future, we are focused on deepening our partnerships with community organizations, and expanding our outreach and education.

Taj build this coat rack out of repurposed and recycled materials.

As we look towards the future, we are focused on deepening our partnerships with community organizations, and expanding our outreach and education.
We had discussions about how, while growing things and connecting with nature should be a happy and positive experience, because of this country’s violence against people and the earth, those relationships can actually be very traumatic.
We looked at different groups of people’s historically traumatic relationships with land. We included US mainland indigenous people, native Hawaiians, descendants of enslaved Africans, Puerto Rican people, poor white mine/extraction workers, and Black Philadelphians. Read more
Guerilla Gardening
Students became interested in the concept of guerrilla gardening after doing a different unit involving guerrilla style sticker campaigning around issues that they cared about. Something about doing something that you’re technically not really supposed to do speaks to a certain part of the teenage soul. 10th grade students worked with Anna Herman and the AFNR seniors to learn how to make pollinator seed balls. Read more