Project Youth Green (PYG) is a four acre community revitalization project that focuses on youth education, community gardening and physical exercise. Project Youth Green targets low-income youth and families who have no access to green space, fruits and vegtables or hands-on educational opportunities.
Approximately 2 acres of Project Youth Green are devoted to the Learning Garden, an area created specifically for the educational development of youth. There are several demonstration gardens that allow youth, to explore, document, and analyze a variety of habitats. These include the native shade garden, the butterfly garden, the Audubon garden, and the anthropological garden.
The other 2 acres are devoted to a 60-plot Family Gardeners Program, fruit tree orchard, walking paths and physical education space. The Family Gardeners Program is where families have their own plot to grow fresh fruits and vegetables, have access to nutritional information in order to make fresh produce a sustainable part of their diet. As individuals have made the community garden part of their daily routine, everyone involved in the garden has picked up additional responsibilities such as cleaning up different parts of the garden and preparing the soil in order to plant more food. Families at Project Youth Green often help one another to maximize the production of crops from the garden as a whole.
