Friday’s Featured Leader: Leo Sovell-Fernandez

Friday’s Featured Leader: Leo Sovell-Fernandez

Building leaders is what Youth Farm is grounded in. We believe that leaders, no matter how young, can change not only their communities, but the world. However, we also recognize that leadership comes in many forms, both good and bad, and we aim to overcome challenges...
Friday’s Featured Leader: Seeha Sangwang

Friday’s Featured Leader: Seeha Sangwang

At Youth Farm, we are constantly preaching the importance of community connections, and our youth continue to remind us why that is so important. St. Paul Project LEAD, Seeha Sangwang, has been involved at Youth Farm for about two years, but would never have been...
Friday’s Featured Leader: Nickolas Vang

Friday’s Featured Leader: Nickolas Vang

As we continue to expand our work with public schools, it is extremely beneficial for us to explore our past successes within these partnerships.  To say that school partnerships oftentimes serve as a youth’s first experience at Youth Farm would be an understatement....
Friday’s Featured Leader: Alecia Mathews

Friday’s Featured Leader: Alecia Mathews

Alecia, center, with Program Specialist, Jesus (right), and fellow Project LEAD, Dani (left) The range of talents we have on our youth staff team consistently astounds us. Some of our youth are amazing athletes, mentors, artists, musicians, actors, and gardeners....
Playing for the Plants: Episode 2

Playing for the Plants: Episode 2

This past Saturday marked the second episode of the Playing for the Plants garden music series. This installment was very special to Youth Farm’s North Minneapolis team because it was hosted in the Nellie Stone Johnson Community School garden. This garden is the...
Friday’s Featured Leader: Sergio Arredondo

Friday’s Featured Leader: Sergio Arredondo

Farm Steward Sergio, left, with North Minneapolis Program Director, Marcus Kar. Northside Farm Steward Sergio Arredondo is heavily involved in Youth Farm’s operations, however his involvement started almost accidentally many years ago.  Now 21, Sergio had to dig deep...