Friday’s Featured Leader: Zoelle Collins

Friday’s Featured Leader: Zoelle Collins

Walking into Youth Farm’s greenhouse on a spring morning, Zoelle Collins is greeted by the sweet smell of soil and hundreds of sprouting seedlings. In the busy season of her last semester at Macalester college, Zoelle finds time spent nurturing plants to be both...
25 Years of Leadership: Alumni Feature, Jesus Perez

25 Years of Leadership: Alumni Feature, Jesus Perez

Jesus Perez clearly remembers one of the last days of his fifth grade year at Lyndale Elementary School. That day, a staff member from Youth Farm came and talked to his class, encouraging students to join them out in Youth Farm’s garden spaces throughout the summer....
Friday’s Featured Leader: Anastasia Thompson

Friday’s Featured Leader: Anastasia Thompson

At Youth Farm, young people focus their efforts heavily on making community impact through food. This past year, Project LEAD Anastasia Thompson took some of Youth Farm’s recipes international, using food to connect to her host family in Spain. During her exchange...