Radix’s Youth Employment program teaches both practical and intellectual jobs skills. During the first hour, our youth employees maintain and improve our small farm business by building, composting, digging, planting, mulching, and preparing vegetables for sale. During the second hour, we develop literacy and advocacy skills by discussing selected readings. Our readings have covered a range of styles and have included selections from Pope Francis’ encyclical On Care for Our Common Home and Mary Ruefle’s poem “Keeping it Simple.”