Fall Highlights on the West Side

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...

Preserving the Harvest

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....

Taco Time!

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....

Youth Farm Cooking Demo at Lowry Harvest Fest & Open Streets

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...

Play With Your Food!

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...