The Rooted Emergence Project’s mission is to address socioeconomic disparities, the growing effects of climate change, food insecurity, and reverberating effects like mental and psychological disorders affecting our youth in underserved communities.
youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year.
11M
US children lived in food-insecure households in 2019.
Our Partners
We partner with organizations throughout New York City to teach food production and agricultural-based coping methods to underserved and at-risk communities.
“Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process – green plants growing on regenerating soil.”
- Allan Savory
Zimbabwean biologist, ecologist and farmer. Founder of Holistic Management.