We love getting creative with the food we grow, and this week we found a new way to do it. Our friend and intern Peter has been spending Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the Lyndale kitchen, and after poking around Pillsbury Farm one day he suggested we make stuffed grape...
Tickets for the Taste of the Farm event have SOLD OUT, but it’s not too late to get involved in the fun. Whether you were lucky enough to get tickets, or won’t be around this weekend, we have great raffle items available, and you don’t need to be...
It’s here, we’re officially in it now, difficult to explain but easy to sense it’s that unique summertime flow of fun, excitement, exhaustion, challenge, and growth. The gardens are blowing up and the sun is shining, produce is flowing to the YF...
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...
The youth have been creating some tasty food to nosh on for lunch after a morning spent in the garden. Lush lettuce and spinach, aromatic basil and cilantro, and fresh- from-the earth carrots have been making their way to the kitchen from the Frogtown gardens. Some...
Fatumo and Emma are both in the first summer at Youth Farm and have become fast friends. Here they demonstrate how eating our delicious lunches helps them be strong and healthy. In the first two weeks of program our lunches have been stuffed full with our own veggies,...
Here at Hawthorne, we just finished an awesome first two weeks of program! We have harvested close to 200 pounds of produce and we’re rolling along with bike, art and cooking focus groups. Check out these videos we did of a bike helmet...
We’ve had a great first week at Youth Farm! We started off learning about our wonderful soil! Focus groups spent their afternoons preparing for our second Annual Poetry Picnic! Friday night we had over 200 friends and families attend our Poetry Picnic!!! Such an...
At Hawthorne, we’ve had some great fun planning and preparing for summer program and it has finally arrived! Here’s some great shots from staff training and the first day… We bonded. We milked a cow! We hosted a Puppet Show from Open Eye Theatre. We...
