WJZ Spotlights NDP’s Service Partnership with First Fruits Farm

When WJZ-TV went looking for a story about young people fighting food insecurity in Maryland, it found one at First Fruits Farm, told in the voices of Notre Dame Prep students.

On Tuesday, 27 NDP students spent the morning at the Baltimore County farm, one of the school’s longest-standing service partners since 2010. They packaged thousands of pounds of potatoes they had helped harvest just weeks earlier, bound for holiday food boxes for local families. Most of the volunteers were students in NDP’s AP Environmental Science class, and they spoke to WJZ reporter Tara Lynch about how their classroom study of food insecurity came to life in the field. Junior Chloe C. put it simply: these needs “are present, and it’s closer than you think.”

Steve Pomplon, NDP’s Director of Social Service, also spoke with WJZ about how service at NDP helps students take what they learn in class and engage with the communities around them, a reflection of our mission to educate young women to transform the world.

The segment aired on WJZ-TV’s 5:00 p.m. evening news broadcast later that day. We are grateful to WJZ for sharing this story, to First Fruits Farm for welcoming our students season after season, and to the young women who so clearly and eloquently showed what service at NDP looks like.

Read the full story and watch the WJZ segment here →