The youth have been creating some tasty food to nosh on for lunch after a morning spent in the garden. Lush lettuce and spinach, aromatic basil and cilantro, and fresh- from-the earth carrots have been making their way to the kitchen from the Frogtown gardens. Some...
Fatumo and Emma are both in the first summer at Youth Farm and have become fast friends. Here they demonstrate how eating our delicious lunches helps them be strong and healthy. In the first two weeks of program our lunches have been stuffed full with our own veggies,...
“So what do you do in the winter?” is a question I hear at least once a month. The answer can be long, but it is simple. Since we can’t grow food, we focus on growing leaders and community. We reflect and plan. We cook and have community events. We...
On Tuesday in our Cooking Class, our All Stars learned a valuable lesson that mistakes can sometimes lead to even better discoveries. One of the cooking teams was making Banana Pudding and when they whipped the whipping cream, well, they did a very thorough job of...
On Monday, Youth Farmers in Frogtown tried out some news ways to eat an old favorite. Youth prepared a yummy veggie stir fry using broccoli and bell peppers grown in the garden at Jackson Elementary and preserved for the winter. The best part of the meal was...
Mondays get a bad rap, but one hasn’t come around for me in a while and I LOVE and miss them! Finally, the weather was mild enough for school to be open so our class at Nellie Stone Johnson got to meet today. We made parfaits to reconnect and learn about...
