Youth Food Stories: Grace Mathews

For years, Grace Mathews has spent time with her dad and her sister in the kitchen – this is where she first gained an interest in food and gardening. Now, as a Project LEAD staff member, learning about cooking and growing food is part of her job. We asked Grace...
Youth Food Stories: Eliza Thompson

Youth Food Stories: Eliza Thompson

Back in the days of Youth Farm’s summer program, it was easy to find a young Eliza Thompson asking to be part of the kitchen crew for the day. Almost every day she wanted to be involved in the kitchen somehow. After years of being involved at Youth Farm and in the...
Youth Food Stories: Pedro Bayón

Youth Food Stories: Pedro Bayón

Over the better half of the past decade, we have been honored to have Pedro Bayón as part of the Youth Farm team. Now in his first year as a Farm Steward, Pedro has taken on more and more leadership roles each year. Farming and food are both things that have had a...
Friday’s Featured Leader: Emma Schluter

Friday’s Featured Leader: Emma Schluter

Within the first three weeks of her time as a Farm Steward at Youth Farm, Emma Schluter stood by the Youth Farm team as a pipe burst in the greenhouse, the St. Paul Public School teachers went on strike, and COVID officially shut down almost all in-person activities....
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...