Join us this Saturday, May 21st, as we paint the new mural at Lyndale Elementary designed by Greta Alquist and Lyndale students. There will be free food and music, fun activities, and garden planting. The event is 11am to 1pm at Lyndale School, 312 W 34th St. See you...
E-Don! Over the last three years as a Project LEAD E-Don was like a constant fountain of laughter and jokes. Every group benefits from having team members who will reach out and create a friendly, welcoming, and fun vibe. For Lyndale, E-Don held that role down. Her...
Youth Farm is hiring chefs and a food buyer for summer! Passionate about fresh local food? Excited to work with young people to create meals? Come join our team. Application Deadline is May 20th Join our...
This summer, over 250 Youth Farmers will work together to prepare over 7,500 healthy meals for their peers, their family members, and their community. While much of this food is grown on site, there are still considerable needs. In 2016, we ask you to join us in...
As spring is finally upon us, not only does that mean that our farms will soon be blooming with vegetables and bustling with Youth Farmers, but also that for a number of our Project LEAD participants, they are graduating High School and entering their last summer at...
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...
Here are some of my favorite moments from the last couple months: visiting the Powderhorn Knitting and Cooking Class, creating a salad for Roots for the Hometeam, and starting up the hoophouse at Lyndale School. We’ll be making more fun new memories this Friday...
We held our south Minneapolis Project LEAD retreat last month in Knife River, just north of Duluth. It was a long trip in the van, but we had an incredible time bonding and building our team. The definite highlight was bushwhacking through a forest and walking on the...
The 2016 seed order is here! Soon all these little seeds will be popping up in our greenhouse or out in our farms. We ordered over 75 varieties of crops this year ranging from heirloom tomatoes, to popalo, to kohlrabi, to pie pumpkins, and everything else in between....
