By Shanna Woods This fall I got a chance to work along side of the Lyndale farm stewards and learn all the ways you end the growing season. This year we are took on the approach of preserving food to use for past the the first frost. It was so exciting learning how to...
Over the weekend the Lyndale Neighborhood Association and Youth Farm celebrated La Posada with over 300 community members. Our Project LEAD were all over the event! They developed the menu, flyered before the event, welcomed guests as they arrived, ran musical chairs,...
Last week Jesus and Nora teamed up with Blaisdell YMCA’s staff to cook up a chili dinner celebrating the end of the Y’s Physically Healthy and Driven program. Over 80 youth in K through 5 and parents gathered for the hearty meal. Lots of kids were scared...
If you have not had a chance to learn about Roots for the Home Team, it is collaborative effort spearheaded by dietitian Sue Moores, involving Youth Farm and Market Project, Community Design Center, Emerge Community Development, and the Minnesota Twins. Watch this...
This past fall was full of lots of fun and many milestones. After the past growing season there was a lot to celebrate and we gladly carried that momentum through the changing seasons. October was a very busy month, we started our school year LEAD program along with...
Our names are Trayvionne and Raven and we had a fun experience of fund raising. This is Trayvionne’s first time and it was great and we had a lot of food we had bread and spaghetti. youth farm was raising money for st. Olaf...
As December draws nearer after school programming is coming to a close. For Thanksgiving break there was no class at Jackson which has now resumed. On Wednesday the kids will be making a delicious tofu stir fry and doing a food sort, separating items into the...
Over the course of the fall Lyndale’s Farm Stewards have picked up some new skills learning how to preserve our harvest. This fall we’ve preserved tomatoes, beans, kale, and peppers coming from our CHT and Pillsbury farms and also from Hawthorne....
Lyndale’s fall session of All Things Food wrapped up last week. Our youth celebrated by hosting a dinner for their families and for the Lyndale Neighborhood Association’s ESL program. Forty of us gathered for tacos, baked potato fries, salad, and brownies....
Last weekend Lyndale’s All Stars returned to Philadelphia Community Farm in Osceola, Wisconsin. Many in the group had fond memories of visiting Philly Farm in the summer for Farm Camp. We were happy to find Burrito the donkey was still around and loved eating...
