Youth Farmers in Frogtown know the best way to make recycling fun. Yesterday Youth Farmers re-purposed cardboard boxes as sleds for a quick break while taking out the recycling. All the “sleds” were recycled at the end of the...
How do Youth Farmers stay active in the winter? They go ice skating! Lyndale’s All Things Food program took a break from cooking up their dinner to ice skate at Powderhorn Park. Thanks to the Minneapolis Park Board for providing skates, popcorn, and hot...
Youth Farm and Market Project kicked off 2013 with our annual LEAD retreat. This year the retreat agenda focused on seasonal menus, farm planning, and working collaboratively between our 5 different neighborhoods. The collaboration started early by breaking into...
Hawthorne winter after school programming kicked off this last week at Nellie Stone Johnson Community School (NSJ). We teach after school cooking and farming classes at the school each Monday as part of the YMCA Beacon’s After School Program at NSJ. Last week we...
How many feet of lettuce does YFMP need to plant to feed all five our neighborhoods a farm fresh salad during the first week of summer programming? 50 feet- Our Farm Stewards discovered as they began to match the summer lunch menu to the crops we will grow this...
Lyndale Project LEAD and Farm Stewards got out of town last weekend for a stay up on the north shore. We planned our summer food distribution, prepared for winter classes, explored the frozen beauty of the north shore, and made a lot of delicious food from scratch....
