Youth Farmers really like to paint. We’ve painted our sheds (inside and out), signs, benches, numerous tools, our trash can lid, t-shirts, and even our van. So when we stared at this blank, grey, leaky, cinder block eye-sore we knew just what to do. Farm...
People often ask what we do with the food we grow. Step onto one of our farms during the summer and you’ll understand that while Youth Farm’s primary focus is on youth and leadership development, we grow a ton of food. While we sell some of the food to...
Written by Kia and Maya (Project LEAD) During Youth Farm last week, the main farm worked on their new compost bin. They built and painted it, and now it is ready for compost. In the afternoons, we made home-made slime and went to the library. On Friday, we took an...
On a beautiful July evening over a 100 Lyndale community members came together at Horn Towers to enjoy Open Eye Theatre’s Driveway Tour performance of Molly and the Magic Boot sponsored by LNA and Youth Farm. Children of all ages loved Molly’s story of...
Over the last week our Photography and Journalism focus group conducted interviews with youth farmers and staff. Here are a few from aspiring journalists Julie, Simon, and Elijah. “We interviewed SP in our focus group today. She is 13 years old and she plays a...
Written by Kia (Project LEAD) Last Tuesday we took the youth farmers to Lake Phalen to go swimming. On Wednesday and Friday we took small groups out for ice cream and played water games. We had a fun week!
Almost two weeks ago, Hawthorne neighborhood got a shed. And not just any old shed. On a rainy Tuesday morning, a semi truck hauling a 40′ steel shipping container unloaded almost 5 tons of shed onto the parking lot at St. Olaf Community Campus in North...
This past week on the West Side was one to remember. So good we actually have to start the Friday before where we had a special visit from a pig named Kevin, ate sushi for lunch, and played 4 way capture the flag with face paint at Harriet Island. Following what was...
Every Monday, a small, dedicated group of youth farmers and staff meet in Frogtown to care for the three farms in the neighborhood. The group keeps the farms weeded and watered, and ready to go for programming each week. Today, youth farmers harvested one of their...
Harvested lettuce from the hoop house, so we could attract beautiful mouse…in the church. (Just kidding) watered the green things while we listened to the birds perch. Weeded as much bad guy plants as we can, and we even met a policeman. (He came to our farm!)...
