Youth Gardening:

Durham Inner-city Gardeners. Meet the DIG crew.

a youth-driven, urban farming leadership development program.

Durham Inner-city Gardeners (DIG) empowers teens by teaching organic gardening, sound business practices, healthy food choices and food security values.  The program emphasizes sustainable living and growing practices, ecological balance, and the natural recycling of organic materials for plant health and nourishment.  DIG youth are paid a stipend to cultivate fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers and mushrooms, which they sell at the Durham Farmer's Market and make available to our neighbors. 

For more information contact the DIG Coordinator, Santos Flores

Healthy Food-A-Thon

Sponsor a Teenager as they attempt a month of Healthy Eating. How long can they go without fast food or soda? What healthy-eating decisions will they make?
Challenge them with your Support!

Help us reach our pledge goal of $5,000! That will support summer stipends for 2.5 DIG Youth!

Pledge what you can—50 cents, $1, $5, $10 or more for each day (up to a month) a DIG youth can go without fast food or soda.

The Challenge will beginat the end of June through the end of July. The youth you pledge will call you if they cave in early or at the end of July if they succeed!

 Click here to sponsor today! Or call Santos at 683-1197

  Meet the DIG crew.

Read or listen to a story about DIG by Marie Lovejoy that aired on WUNC public radio.

Please contact SEEDS at (919) 683-1197 for more information on how to get involved with DIG. We welcome youth and adult volunteers year round!

SEEDS is a non-profit educational community garden that uses gardening and growing food to teach respect for life, for the earth and for each other.

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