All Star Week in Hawthorne!

We have really celebrated All Stars this week both at the baseball game and here in Hawthorne. On Tuesday our LEAD sold out of West Side’s Tic Tac Taco salad at the All Star Game! It was a hit and we all had a blast taking in the festivities and bustle of the...

Youth Farm Goes to Target Field

Last week, Youth Farmers in Frogtown had an awesome field trip to a baseball game at Target Field.  Thanks to the Minnesota Twins, Sprockets, and Metro Transit for making it...

Spring Bike Tune-ups at Cycles for Change

Spring at Youth Farm in Frogtown is a busy time.  We’re wrapping up after-school programs, preparing for summer, planting the farms, and of course, fixing bikes.  Thanks for our friends at Cycles for Change, Youth Farm’s bikes in Frogtown are tuned-up and...

Thank you to our volunteers from St Kate’s!

Youth Farm has been fortunate to work with wonderful volunteers from St Catherine University this school year.  Today, students from St Kate’s made cupcakes with Youth Farmers in Frogtown.  Thank you,...

Thank You Farm Volunteers

While much of our farm work is done by youth, during the school year we have too much to handle without extra support. There are many individual volunteers who help us farm and water, as well as other groups who will pound out an afternoons work here and there. For so...

Youth Farmers Take Over the Hyatt’s Kitchen

Over spring break Youth Farmers, All Stars, Project LEAD, and Farm Stewards from both Lyndale and Powderhorn trekked over to the Downtown Hyatt Regency hotel. We got up with their kitchen crew and met a variety of different chefs who worked with us to develop 4...