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BoysGrow

Manual entrepreneurship, refuge: ‘Farming is just the vehicle,’ says BoysGrow founder

By Tommy Felts / July 11, 2018

“What’s the word?” “Respect!” shouted the teenage farmhands at BoysGrow, a two-year program dedicated to teaching entrepreneurship to urban youth through agriculture and farming. The 10-acre BoysGrow farm outside Grandview plays host to 30 to 40 boys, ranging in age from 15 to 17. They work, eat and learn on the nonprofit farm three days…

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John Gordon Jr., BoysGrow

BoysGrow teaches urban youth entrepreneurship through farming

By Tommy Felts / September 15, 2017

BoysGrow, a mentoring program that teaches urban Kansas City boys entrepreneurship through hands-on agriculture, isn’t successful based on what the teens harvest, John Gordon Jr. said. It’s all about the soft skills they learn on the South Kansas City farm. “These boys are young,” said Gordon, founder of BoysGrow, noting the two-year program accepts students…

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