The Green Teen Community Gardening Project offers opportunities to kids age 17-21 in the Hudson River Valley. Through hands-on experience, participants grow plants and vegetables in their classrooms, on farms, and in community gardens.

Shabazz Jackson helped launch Green Teen and still offers gardening training through Greenway Environmental Services in Poughkeepsie, NY.  He believes that gardening is a unique and potent way of reaching out to at-risk youth looking for new goals in life. The program grows self-esteem as well as food.