Drive Change doesn’t just offer ex-inmates a shift and a paycheck.
Thursday night saw the reveal of “Snow Day,” the first in what founders hope to be a series of social justice food trucks to help formerly incarcerated youth onto the road to prosperity.
Robert (our cover model for the July/August issue) and colleague Dwan are now both active in the Hort’s GreenTeam, the paid-internship follow-up program that helps transition participants back into their communities.
Edible recently paid a visit to the Bowery Mission to see what they’ve got cooking, and it looks like there’s loads of greens, tomatoes, peppers and herbs involved, courtesy of a budding rooftop farming initiative there.
Recently, Edible had the chance to visit an East River isle and discover riches lying on the other side of razor-wire-topped cyclone fences.
