I was in the garden and thinning carrots. I pulled a carrot and it was twisted together with another carrot. This is me (Myanna) and Antonio with our...
Farm Stewards Jesus, Alice, and Teng and I are attending the 14th Annual Rooted in Community Conference. This year the conference is held in Ames, Iowa. Currently we are touring Table Top Farm, a 26-acre CSA and Market Farm and will be checking out a restored Prairie...
Last Friday Frogtown Youth Farm went to visit the Westside Youth Farm at their Cherokee Garden. Together, we grilled out and had a blast on the annual West Side water slide. Pictured: Staff run the waterslide while Frogtown Youth Farmers enjoy themselves. Post by...
Despite rainy mornings and the continued heat, we had a great week in Hawthorne. A bat decided to come hang out (bad pun intended) for lunch, we made kites at Northern Mississippi Regional Park, and the public art focus group finished a new garden sign for NSJ Farm....
At Youth Farm we encouraging playing with your food, because it probably means you’ll eat it too. In Lyndale today we had our weekly installment of Rotten Idea Theatre which is part of our nutrition curriculum. Our cooks today made veggie lo main and spring...
This past Friday the youth on the West Side had another summer day filled with good food, art, garden time, games, and biking. Each day the youth who work in the Cherokee School garden bike the 1 mile trip, you can see them circling up preparing to head out. Please...
Lyndale All Stars have been super engaged in their neighborhood this summer, and their work came together last Thursday for a Pocket Park Extravaganza. Lyndale has a neglected park space just half a block from our PillsburyFarm, and this year Youth Farm and the...
The youth in Frogtown have been staying busy despite the record setting summer heat. Bike rides and field trips to local neighborhood sites like the Hmong Market and Amir’s Garden have introduced and connected the youth to local projects and activities. The youth...
As we hit the mid-point of Youth Farm’s summer program on the West Side it is easy to look back on many memorable moments. Here are a few photos of the good times being had on St. Paul’s West Side. While the youth of the Robert Street garden were planning out...
With one of hottest weeks in Youth Farm (and Twin Cities) history last week, we decided to try and cool things off as much as possible last Friday. A water balloon toss, water relay race and game of water balloon capture the flag weren’t enough for some, and a...
