This summer Lyndale’s primary method of food distribution has been a family shares program. All summer youth and parents have been telling us how they’ve used the produce. We’ve heard about kids making and eating pesto, kale chips, and lots of green...
Written by Abdi (Project LEAD) Last Wednesday, Frogtown youth farmers took a morning field trip to visit Stone’s Throw Urban Farm. Youth farmers toured the farm and had a weeding contest. We weeded 3 rows in 20 minutes. We also helped find and squish potato...
Over numerous summers I’ve asked countless youth farmers “Why do you like coming to Youth Farm?” and nearly every single time the first thing they say is “Because it’s fun”. I like to think of YF as way more than just a bunch of...
Lyndale held an Iron Chef competition for a Fun Friday activity a couple weeks ago. Our 60 youth split into 10 groups to figure out the tastiest ways to prepare produce from the farms. Each group started off with a selection of kale, radishes, lettuce, spinach, and...
Last week, Youth Farmers in the Frogtown Main Garden worked on making the ultimate compost bin. They worked hand in hand with me in designing a compost bin that is sure to help us win this years compost cup. The compost bin will feature a walking platform for optimal...
Here is NSJ Farm All Stars picking CHERRIES. They’re going to become a pie very soon. Also, these pictures are showing what a wonderful job they have done with their SUNFLOWER...
The suns out! We’ve been celebrating the heat by keeping cool in the pool and making ice cream. Our hoop house is accelerating our summer and we’ve just about got jalapeños now...
“When I came back to Youth Farm this summer, I was glad to see the same faces and new ones too. I know that most of the kids are not just coming to do something in the summer, but they enjoy being here. I learned about our garden groups and what we would do in...
We have just wrapped up our second week here at Youth Farm and we had lots of fun. During morning garden time, we worked on our very first farm skill and some gardens even got to harvest some crops. On Tuesday, we took a very fun field trip to Como Zoo and had a...
We have just finished our first week of Youth Farm and it’s been a blast. On the first day, we got to know each other by playing many fun games and spending some time with each other in our farm groups. The Youth Farmers also cooked up some great food during the...
