Written by Elena Haynes, a student with the HECUA at the University of Minnesota who is interning with YFMP in Hawthorne Neighborhood. For the past two months I have been interning with JP Mason at the North Minneapolis Hawthorne Site of Youth Farm and Market Project....
This weekend, we met with Frogtown All-Stars to plan a reunion for all the participants in our Frogtown programs. While we were accidentally locked out of Liberty Plaza, we still had fun playing 3-step dodgeball, and making spring rolls outside on the playground. Keep...
Our Farm at Lyndale School has had a couple major updates this year. We’ve built a hoop house a good sized hoop house that we will start growing in this winter. Our Farm Stewards have long been at work at putting this project together and the construction...
Hawthorne Youth Farm All Stars and Project LEAD had blast this last Saturday! A perfect fall afternoon, we ventured down to Deardorff Orchards. It didn’t matter that most of the apples were off the trees by this point in the season; there were plenty of apples...
Which means that it is time to put all of the beds to sleep for the winter. This morning, the beds at St Stephanus were put to sleep, the beds at the main farm site will be put to sleep tomorrow, and the beds at Jackson will be soon to follow. Last week, we used some...
October has officially begun and the month of pumpkins, apple cider and changing leaves is upon us! This week at Liberty Plaza our program participants decorated bicycles for the Wacky Wheelers ride and bike art show. The event is put on by Cycles for Change, Youth...
Last Saturday Hawthorne Youth Farmers, All Stars and Project LEAD showed off their cooking skills at the Lowry Harvest Fest in conjunction with Minneapolis Open Streets in North Minneapolis. We cooked and sampled food with other urban agriculture groups and...
Last Friday, Shanna and the guys from Teen Challenge got a lot work done in the farms and had a great time! One of the guys found a baby mouse. Two of em ate jalapenos and felt the burn plus we found cool items while tilling the soil. Lyndale Youth Farm hosts...
As the growing comes to a close, we are putting more of the beds to rest for the winter. This morning, the last of the basil, squash, and watermelon plants were put into the compost pile, but we found one last watermelon that looks like it might still be good. Even...
