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A Growing well美国移民少年帮助社区改善饮食。 WHEN Kevon Johnson moved with his family from Jamaica to Hartford, the capital of Connecticut in the US, in 2010, the most difficult thing for him was not the language, but the food.“I didn’t like the way the chicken tasted. It tasted spoiled,” Johnson, 18, recalled. “And the fruit tasted like it was picked before time, so it was forced to be ripe.”At his old home on the Caribbean island, Johnson could just climb up a tree and get fresh fruit such as mangos and bananas. But in his new Hartford neighborhood, nutritious (有营养的) food was harder to get and cheap fast food seemed to be everywhere.Johnson’s concern for his family’s health, his own food rebellion (反叛) and deep questions about obesity (肥胖) and access to fresh food eventually led him to Grow Hartford, a youth program of the Hartford Food System. It harvests vegetables in urban (城市的) farms and works toward healthy food policies.Since he joined Grow Hartford, Johnson has worked as an urban farmer and educated people about the lack of supermarkets in poor cities, organizing workshops for groups including the Boys and Girls Club and Hartford Parent University, said Navina Vemuri, youth coordinator (协调者) for Grow Hartford.Johnson has also asked for spice racks (调料架) in school canteens (食堂) to make school lunches tastier. “It could appeal to different taste buds (味蕾) and make students less likely to buy junk food at the corner store after school,” he said.Lonnie Burt, head of the Hartford school system’s food and nutrition services, said her department is seriously considering this suggestion.Because of his hard work, Johnson was named youth winner of the 2015 Hartford Community Food Security Award.But what made Johnson happiest was not the award. He smiled biggest when asked about Grow Hartford’s youngest workers and how they are able to make grown-ups stop and listen.“They listen to us,” Johnson said. “They see that it’s really kids fighting for it, so they try to help out.” Cho