Our first strawberries came in this week! Nothing tastes quite as sweet as those first hand picked berries right out of our farms. It is a joy to share these fruits with our young people, many of whom have never tasted fresh local strawberries. The week before summer...
Friday was the last day for Minneapolis students! We celebrated at Lyndale elementary during recess with 60 students coming in to harvest a head of lettuce to take home. Later that night we harvested 14 pounds of radishes with All Stars and then took a field trip to...
Be on the lookout in the neighborhood for groups of young people growing food. Youth Farmers are out and about five days a week in the farms. We are deep in spring cleaning and planting early crops. Before you know it we will have a bounty! Our hoop house at Lyndale...
Harvested lettuce from the hoop house, so we could attract beautiful mouse…in the church. (Just kidding) watered the green things while we listened to the birds perch. Weeded as much bad guy plants as we can, and we even met a policeman. (He came to our farm!)...
This summer Lyndale’s primary method of food distribution has been a family shares program. All summer youth and parents have been telling us how they’ve used the produce. We’ve heard about kids making and eating pesto, kale chips, and lots of green...
The suns out! We’ve been celebrating the heat by keeping cool in the pool and making ice cream. Our hoop house is accelerating our summer and we’ve just about got jalapeños now...
