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A Healthy Home Run
Susan Moores helps young people look at food
and their livesin a fresh new way. By Julie Kendrick
When youre a lifelong Moores reached out to
WHO SHE IS WHAT SHE DID
Cubs fan, you have to be youth-centered urban
an optimist, Susan Moores says. A Chi- agricultural programs, gauging their
cago native, she always felt renewed and interest in selling salads that she would
refreshed after a day at Wrigley Field. help them create from their harvests. She
After becoming a registered dietitian, brought a salad to a lunch meeting with
she moved to the Twin Cities, where she the Twins community fund manager,
focused on finding ways to help young spinning a story of Roots for the Home
people think positively about nutritious Team. This new organization would pair
eating. When she heard the Minnesota young gardeners with chefs to develop
Twins were moving to a new outdoor sta- salad recipes that they would then create
dium, she wondered: Could she combine and sell at games. The Twins said yes, and
meaningful work for young people with Roots was launched in 2012, eventually
introducing a fresh food option to sports expanding to include carts at University
fans who might be hungry for something of Minnesota football games and local
beyond traditional ballpark fare? markets as well.
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pictured here with Susan
Moores, participate in
Roots for the Home
Team by way of the group
Appetite for Change in
North Minneapolis.
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Last year, the kids grew
WHY ITS COOL
nearly 500 pounds of
organic vegetables and sold almost 1,600
salads at 18 Twins games. They work on
everything from vegetable harvest and
recipe creation to selling the salads to
hungry sports fans. Working at the cart,
they have an opportunity to tell the story
behind their salads, and they begin to see
themselves as entrepreneurs and commu-
nity catalysts, Moores says. These young
people deserve the chance to dream big.
SARA RUBINSTEIN
Fifteen-year-old participant Yeng Lee says:
Walking out of Target Field, it feels really
great to know that you have more poten-
tial than before you walked in.