Green Central Hoop House is Underway

The long awaited Hoop House at Green Central Elementary and Park is finally underway! We’ve installed our ground stakes and put up the hoops. A group of 5th graders helped out during recess to pound in some stakes, and our staff came together to get those hoops...

First Week in Frogtown

Earlier this week, YFMP debuted its first summer program in the Frogtown neighborhood of St. Paul. Armed with lots of enthusiasm and positive, engaging activities for the youth, YFMP staff helped kick the summer off to a great start. Despite the rumblings of rain on...

New Garden Beds in Frogtown

This spring, new gardens and farms are popping up all over Frogtown!  Last Saturday, volunteers in Frogtown built three new raised beds at St Stephanus Lutheran Church.  Volunteers planted herbs and veggies that youth farmers will cook in summer...

YFMP Helps Build a New Farm at Jackson Elementary in Frogtown

Last Saturday, community members in Frogtown, master gardeners, youth from the Wilder Foundation’s Youth Leadership Initiative, and staff from Jackson Preparatory Magnet built a new garden in the neighborhood.  Volunteers worked hard to build eight new...

YFMP awarded $300,000 USDA Community Foods Project Grant

YFMP is honored to be one of only 27 organizations nation-wide to be awarded a 2011 Community Foods Project grant through the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). While we alluded to it in our winter fundraising appeal, YFMP’s proposal focuses...

YFMP on MPR

If you missed it on the radio in August, here is the audio of Dan Olson’s Story on YFMP and expansion efforts in Hawthorne in N....