We’re thrilled to be presenting at the American Horticultural Society’s National Children & Youth Garden Symposium this July!

NCYGS 2021 will take place as a virtual symposium with both live, interactive sessions (July 7-9) and prerecorded sessions for on-demand viewing. Symposium registrants will be able to access the entire content package.

Registration is now open.

Find us presenting during the Advanced Studies section!

Advanced Studies

These sessions demonstrate how to provide pathways for youth to careers in horticulture and related fields.

Cultivating Young Leaders: Digging into Youth-Led Garden-Based Businesses
Lauren Newman | Youth Entrepreneurship Cooperative Manager | City Blossoms
Willa Pohlman | Director of Programming and Trainings | City Blossoms

Join City Blossoms, a DC-based nonprofit that cultivates community through kid-driven garden, to explore youth-led garden-based entrepreneurship. This session will focus on sharing lessons learned from over a decade’s worth of effort, testing, and tweaking our methods of working with young people in the Youth Entrepreneurship Cooperative program. The session will take a look at the building blocks of a youth-led business, the history and significance of the cooperative model, growing a program from scratch, and a youth-led business in practice.