Watermelon Cake!

Today in Hawthorne the Art and Culinary Focus groups combined their awesome skills to make and decorate Watermelon Cake! First you cut away the rind of the watermelon then you top it with icing and fruit. YUM! After learning how to change a flat, the Biking group was...

Pollinator Workshop with Urban Farm and Garden Alliance

Master Gardeners and the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance in Frogtown hosted a “Pollinator Workshop” for Youth Farmers.  We learned about bugs, seed bombs, and plum trees.  Big thanks to the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance!...

Compost Rally!

Watch out Lyndale! We’re going on a compost parade today and we’re all dressed...

Harvest Rolling In

We have been buried by the harvest this summer! Its almost been a struggle to keep up with all this food. Lyndale has already harvested over 900 pounds of food and we’re still in July! It is a testament to all the amazing work of our young people and staff this...

Fun in Frogtown

Youth Farmers in Frogtown have been doing lots of fun things this summer!

Basil Ice Cream?

Why not? Last week we sold some of our beets and basil to Izzy’s Ice Cream Cafe. Our All Stars harvested the 48 pounds of beets needed for their Berry Beet ice cream and we all harvested the 2 pounds of basil needed for their Basil ice cream. Of course that...

Getting healthy in the kitchen!!

Youth farmers are making the best out of the most freshest food in our garden! Here it is, very enthusiastic and energetic, the kitchen crew is preparing for another fantastic meal for our awesome hard-working little farmers here in Frogtown.   -Bee Yang...

“Neatest little story of Last Week’s All-Star Game”

Columnist Neal St. Anthony of the Star Tribune shared an article today highlighting Youth Farm’s contributions to MLB’s All-Star Game last week, Full Story Here. Youth Farm and Urban Roots sold our youth created locally sourced “Roots for the Home...

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...