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my name is Arielle Johnston and I'm a
senior at Green Street Academy I'm from
Baltimore City West part it's kind of
dangerous but she's gotta live through
it I guess the stores that s closest
like convenience store system they don't
really have like fresh vegetables fruits
they sell a lot of junk food easy food
that you can like put in the microwave
you can go to the corner store it's one
like every community point one mile but
grocery store you got walk or custom bus
- so it was kind of difficult for us to
get fresh fruits and vegetables so
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we're no longer using the terminology
food deserts we were using that we're
using the terminology healthy food
priority aria
so the definition is really looking at
can you get to a store easily meaning is
it a quarter-mile or a last and meaning
walkability
looking at are you low-income looking at
vehicle availability and then really
importantly what is in those stores Main
Street Academy is Council District nine
and it's close to fifty six percent of
the residents are living in healthy food
priority is it is the highest of all 14
districts make the recipes that we have
here it's like one it's like a basil one
what a pale one with cilantro based on
like what stuff we are growing computers
Fuko pita is like indoor many grocery
store basically you can grow fruits and
vegetables herbs anything you want
it's Powerball Raspberry Pi which is a
very small computer system it's
essentially a tabletop greenhouse that's
climate controlled with computer program
in robotics
I run the food computer program at Green
Street Academy one of the things that I
want to help kind of talk through in
this class and help students think there
is how could we build sustainable
solutions and so they kind of came up
with this idea where they start to train
people on like what agriculture
technology is and the fun part of it is
to grow something and then like cook
with the afterwards replanted and our
food computer room in the basement and
stuff started growing and we had like
basil and cilantro and and peas and all
of a sudden these peas start it's like
taking over the food computer room and
every week we'd go downstairs and be
like oh my god like we have to do
something available to one of the
students was like why don't we sell this
and I'm like yeah why don't we like why
don't we start this dude
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at our product have grown we cook I like
the cooking part students will be
running a pop-up restaurant at this food
hall called our house our house is like
a food court for start-up businesses
we're gonna be selling grocery
sandwiches paninis soups so we meet like
so so then people ahead with a sandwich
we know that kids who grow food are kids
who are involved and whether it's
growing or cooking some experiential
version of food then they will start to
get the understanding of how food
impacts their health
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we need to be connected to our food
supply we can't feed our way out of this
problem meaning that we can't just grow
enough food and it's going to be solved
there has to be a system that supports
it so we want to see really great
innovative programs in community where
communities are being able to grow their
own food or for youth to be able to
build their own food computer
open-source really helped integrate this
new technology and help integrate
current things in education I think a
long-term solution for this to be like
really integrated into the traditional
classroom I kind of want my community to
truly change about the way they eat and
like the way we live basically this is
all we know this class actually made me
wanna go to a culinary school I want to
have my own restaurant in Baltimore this
place is basically a start I hope my
students kind of take everything that
they've learned in the class and use
that to their advantage and making
whatever they do in the future
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