On Friday and Saturday, we got our Cooking Class, All Stars and LEAD back together to host our annual Hawthorne Cookie Bake! We made 8 different varieties of cookies and had a ton of reconnecting before winter break.
By Jesus Perez, Farm Steward Summer program was a success, but another success that I enjoyed was the Friday night class (niños class). I worked with an amazing group of youth that are willing to learn new things. Every week, we prepared food for 30 people in 3 hour...
Last week we at Hawthorne had a ton of fun preparing for our annual Spaghetti Dinner at St. Olaf Lutheran Church. We made spaghetti sauce out of our frozen tomatoes, bell peppers, butternut squash and basil from SOCC farm, baked fresh bread, made a kale salad with...
Youth Farm was honored to be presented with the 2013 Homegrown Hero Award last night at the Homegrown Minneapolis Annual Open House. We are humbled to receive this award with so much great work going on around the city. Huge thanks to the Homegrown Minneapolis Food...
On Tuesday, we had our last class for the fall season at Liberty Plaza. We concluded the season with a community dinner! For the dinner, the youth prepared baked Mac and Cheese with veggies, apple sauce, salad, and monster cookies! The event was a success and we are...
I am an intern in the Lyndale neighborhood for Youth Farm this fall. I am lucky enough to see the behind-the-scenes at Youth Farm and am able to observe how all of their fall programs and practices work and benefit each other. I think one of the most amazing things...
To celebrate our final greenhouse class of the fall the Youth Farmers decided we should have a party. With music, decorations, dancing, courtyard soccer, gummy worms, and guests, we celebrated the past seasons accomplishments. This fall there was a lot of be proud...
We had a very busy week at Liberty Plaza! Our fall programming is coming to a close next week so this week’s activity was focused on preparation for our community dinner! The kids passed out flyers to their neighbors and they also prepared and cooked the majority of...
Lyndale Youth Farm’s Thursday Cooking Class closed down their fall season with a family and community dinner, feeding 80 people a healthy meal of butternut squash soup, beet salad, and cheddar biscuits. Most of the produce came right from Youth Farm, including...
Today we are wrapping up what has been a spectacular series of cooking classes this fall. Starting at the end of September, Farm Steward Alice Martin began exploring seasonal cooking with West Side youth. Over the 9 week series the class has utilized a fresh fall...
