Play With Your Food!

At Youth Farm we encouraging playing with your food, because it probably means you’ll eat it too. In Lyndale today we had our weekly installment of Rotten Idea Theatre which is part of our nutrition curriculum. Our cooks today made veggie lo main and spring...

Fun Friday (the 13th) on the West Side

This past Friday the youth on the West Side had another summer day filled with good food, art, garden time, games, and biking.  Each day the youth who work in the Cherokee School garden bike the 1 mile trip, you can see them circling up preparing to head out.  Please...

Pocket Park Party

Lyndale All Stars have been super engaged in their neighborhood this summer, and their work came together last Thursday for a Pocket Park Extravaganza. Lyndale has a neglected park space just half a block from our PillsburyFarm, and this year Youth Farm and the...

Surviving the Heat in Frogtown

The youth in Frogtown have been staying busy despite the record setting summer heat. Bike rides and field trips to local neighborhood sites like the Hmong Market and Amir’s Garden have introduced and connected the youth to local projects and activities. The youth...

Compost Cake, Summer Squash, and a Surprise Guest

As we hit the mid-point of Youth Farm’s summer program on the West Side it is easy to look back on many memorable moments.  Here are a few photos of the good times being had on St. Paul’s West Side.  While the youth of the Robert Street garden were planning out...