In 2011, West End created a community garden in the heart of the city’s Little Italy district. Youth in West End’s Bright Spot Ventures program used several of the plots to grow produce, which they then sold at the Cool Spring Farmers’ Market. In 2014 the urban agriculture program became Bright Spot Farms and expanded to include a ½ acre of arable land and greenhouse initiated a pilot program to grow starter plant material for community gardens in New Castle County; and added a Mobile Market thanks to a grant from Highmark Delaware. The Bright Spot Farms program teaches horticultural skills through a curriculum developed by program staff and approved by the Delaware Nursery and Landscape Association. As part of the program, youth have the opportunity to obtain a food handlers’ certificate issued by Delaware’s Department of Agriculture. For the last two months of the program, youth are placed in paid internships through partnerships with local businesses. Some of these internships result in offers of employment.

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Bright Spot Urban Farms

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