Written by Joe Vallee     Wednesday, June 17, 2009

If you think you've seen Jamie McKnight before, chances are you probably have.

McKnight has been in the news quite a bit recently. She is part of Teens 4 Good, a social  youth entrepreneurship program building long-term, working relationships with promising students attending Philadelphia’s public high schools. T4G is a program of the Federation of Neighborhood Centers. The organization was honored this past spring by the Philadelphia Phillies with a City of Champions Award, during their week-long Paint the Town Red celebration prior to Opening Day 2009. The Phillies were honoring nine community members  who really make a difference, and T4G was recognized as one of them. Read More

Written by Robert Hightower    Thursday, July 30, 2009 

Some of the best produce in the city can be found growing in the most unlikely of places. Thanks to the Teens4Good program, which was started in the spring of 2005 and is operated by affiliates of the Federation of Neighborhood Centers, community youngsters are turning lots that were once the victims of blight into vegetables gardens comparable to those in rural areas.  Read More.

Local teens who are growing and cooking with their own vegetables through the Teens 4 Good program received a visit July 21, 2008, from Georges Perrier, a renowned French chef, at Drexel's 11th Street Family Health Services. Read More.

Written by Daniel Rubin
Contact: drubin@phillynews.com

By the El in North Phila., their patch supplies local markets.  Next, a cookbook.

You want the tour?" asks James Whitaker, 16, throwing his arm around my shoulder and leading me in search of that delicacy known as the North Philly onion.

He forms his fingers into a claw and drags the dark soil of a freshly dug bed, fishing out a long, milky white bulb.

"Here," he says, smiling. "Let me give it to you. You've earned it." This sort of media savvy they don't teach at Annenberg. Read More.

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