Three Lexington high school students are spending their summer working at Coleman Crest Farm, a historic Black-owned farm dating back to 1888, through the city’s Summer Youth Job Training Program.
The program places teens at partner worksites across Lexington, where they work part-time, earning $15 an hour. The city government pays their salaries while local businesses receive extra help during the busy summer months.
“When we started, we were planting squash and okra, but now as we get deeper in the season we’ve been harvesting, so today we pulled up the irrigation lines and we went through and we started picking potatoes today,” explained Heavan Dobson, a student at Bryan Station High School…