What We Do
At FunkyTown Food Project, we work at the intersection of youth, food, and community.
Our paid youth internships provide young people with opportunities to challenge themselves, build meaningful connections with each other, the greater community, and the land, and make a positive impact on our food system.
Youth
Young people are at the heart and soul of FunkyTown Food Project, helping grow thousands of pounds of food for our community while developing leadership skills and discovering their own place in the community. Learn more here.
FOOD
We grow fresh, high-quality produce while learning about food systems, nutrition, and food insecurity. Through this work, our interns are directly addressing food equity right here in Tarrant County. Read more here.
Community
As individuals, we work hard to discover who we are and to find our place in the community. As an organization, we build partnerships to make fresh food available to support the health and well-being of all. Read more.
FunkyTown Food Project was established in 2021 out of a desire to bring diverse groups of people together in community. Our co-founders, Cort DeHart and Kent Bradshaw, were troubled by the way people in our community were at odds with each other - or more accurately - were often not communicating at all.
At the same time, lack of access to healthy food was a growing concern, specifically in zip codes like 76104 whose ranking of having “the lowest life expectancy in the state” can be partially attributed to its location in a verified food desert. Inspired by the success and impact of The Food Project in Boston, Cort and Kent used its model to launch FunkyTown. Our values are rooted in a shared sense of community to empower youth and adults to grow healthy food, people, and environment. We believe that when people work together, sweat together, and grow something together, they also find ways to connect with each other.
Our Story
Food for thought
Why FunkyTown?
There’s Cowtown, of course, and Panther City.
But FunkyTown - a nickname dating back to 1986 when a deejay on R&B radio station KKDA 104.5 christened the city Funky Town Fort Worth - just has a fun ring to it.
The farm
FunkyTown Food Project is hosted at Conundrum Farms, located just 15 minutes from downtown Fort Worth where the city skyline fades into the native prairie. A thriving, regenerative, low-till farm, Conundrum welcomes FunkyTown to help grow a variety of healthy produce, a percentage of which is distributed to local food banks and community pantries.
