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(May 9)\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eFood gardening in the United States has reached the highest levels seen in a decade, with about 42 million households growing food at home or in a community garden.But the surprising headline from the 2013 National Gardening Association...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eFood gardening in the United States has reached the highest levels seen in a decade, with about 42 million households growing food at home or in a community garden.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the surprising headline from the 2013 National Gardening Association study is the jump in millennials who now are exercising their green thumbs.\u003cbr/\u003eIn this barren corner of the University of the District of Columbia, the contours of a youth food movement can be easily seen.\u003cbr/\u003eAspiring urban farmer Coy McKinney is drilling some local high school students on how to turn this neglected part of campus into a productive vegetable garden.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's not how McKinney thought he would start his working life.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile studying at UDC as a law student, that McKinney found out his passion in fact was for urban farming.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I feel like with my friends, we're not really down with the cubical 9-5 lifestyle, so we want to have a more dynamic life, \" McKinney told AP. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We want to be able to travel, visit, be outside, do lots of different things and I feel like community gardening and urban farming meets a lot of those needs for people.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAnd, he is not alone.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 2013 National Gardening Association found the largest increase in food gardening was in younger households.\u003cbr/\u003eThere's been a 63 percent jump in the past five years, with more young people, millennials between the ages of 18 and 34, picking up their garden shovels.\u003cbr/\u003eIn 2008 there were 8 million millennial food gardeners and that figure rose to 13 million in 2013.\u003cbr/\u003eAcross Washington, DC, at the National Arboretum, Education Programs Manager of the Washington Youth Garden, Charla Wanta, has also noticed the trend.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, when we are interviewing for positions, my demographic and age group is all over the urban gardening scene.  So interested in learning about growing things, willing to quit full time jobs to come learn about how to garden.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAfter a lifetime of involvement in the food scene, culinary educator JuJu Harris is noticing the youthful trend of gardeners and some of it, she says, comes from the White House. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think there is sort of a resurgence, because a lot of the people who are in their late teens or early 20s now, they were kids when Michelle Obama ... and her husband came to office, \" Harris said.\u003cbr/\u003eWashington - April 21, 2014 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide, view of garden plot in the middle of concrete buildings\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close-up students weeding\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid, reflecting of Coy McKinney instructing students\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Coy McKinney, aspiring urban farmer: \u003cbr/\u003e\"The traditional way of how we think about work is at least, I feel like with my friends, we're not really down with the cubical 9-5 lifestyle, so we want to have a more dynamic life.  We want to be able to travel, visit, be outside, do lots of different things and I feel like community gardening and urban farming meets a lot of those needs for people.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. UPSOUND: (English) Coy McKinney, aspiring urban farmer, talking to students:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I went to UDC (University of the District of Columbia) Law School and while I was in law school, I found out that I was more interested in urban farming than the legal system so, I'm kind of transitioning to follow that kind of dream.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWashington - May 5, 2014 \u003cbr/\u003e6. Pan, Washington Youth Garden at the National Arboretum\u003cbr/\u003e7. UPSOUND: (English) Charla Wanta, Education Programs Manager, Washington Youth Garden harvesting asparagus:\u003cbr/\u003e\"So you just, snap it off, instead of pulling it and when they are fresh they are really crispy.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Tilt down view of garden\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Charla Wanta, Education Programs Manager, Washington Youth Garden:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, when we are interviewing for positions, my demographic and age group is all over the urban gardening scene.  So interested in learning about growing things, willing to quit full time jobs to come learn about how to garden.\"\u003cbr/\u003eTemple Hills, Maryland - April 28, 2014 \u003cbr/\u003e11. Tilt down, Juju Harris' garden\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various, Juju Harris watering garden\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) JuJu Harris, Culinary educator, Arcadia Centre for Sustainable Food and Agriculture:\u003cbr/\u003e\"A lot of the people who are in their late teens or early 20s now, they were kids when Michelle Obama ... and her husband came to office.  Michelle Obama, vice president, and so they've seen that initiative, hey we can take control over our own health.  We can get moving. We can be healthier.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWashington - April 2, 2014 \u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide, First Lady Michelle Obama walking towards students on the White House South Lawn\u003cbr/\u003e15. UPSOUND: (English) Michelle Obama, U.S. First Lady:\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is the sixth annual planting of the White House Kitchen Garden.  Six times, we've done this over six years.  You've got your assignments, all right, let's get to work. Let's move. Let's move.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various, Michelle Obama planting oats with children\u003cbr/\u003eWashington - April 16, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tom Vilsack, U.S. Agriculture Secretary:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the First Lady, obviously, with her, with the White House garden has raised the awareness of the opportunity.  I think we have been a companion with her in this effort with the people's garden program.  Now over 2,000 of these gardens located around the country, donating produce and herbs and fresh food to communities banks and food pantries and last year I think somewhere between 3 and 4 million pounds of food.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWashington - April 21, 2014 \u003cbr/\u003e18. UPSOUND: (English) Coy McKinney, aspiring urban farmer, talking to students:\u003cbr/\u003e\"You guys are actually doing the work, so you get a say in the design and what you guys want to do.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid, students weeding\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Claire Kulawiec, Edmund Burke student:\u003cbr/\u003e\"This has been a lot of fun and it is definitely very interesting, because we are also learning about climate change in science, so they connect.\"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Mid, students in the garden\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Coy McKinney, aspiring urban farmer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"My thinking was that if I could get involved with food at the growing stage of it, then hopefully we could start to have discussions about our neighborhoods, about our cities and start to improve the quality of life here.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. 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