A Different Kind of Menu

While we are usually known for composing menus of a different variety, we thought we could apply this expertise to help with our End-of-the-Year Campaign.  Help us reach our goal of raising $20,000 by picking something off our Ways to Donate Menu: 1. Make a One-Time...

SOCC Holiday Carrots & Cookies!

Hawthorne LEAD had a great time prepping and baking over 300 cookies for St. Olaf’s annual cookie bake! We made 7 different varieties of cookies, 2 of them featuring Hawthorne produce: carrots & zucchini. Those carrots were harvested on November 24th! Our...

Shop Amazon to Support Youth Farm!

  Did you know, part of every purchase you make on Amazon can automatically be donated to Youth Farm? Here’s how: 1. Go to smile.amazon.com and sign-in with your Amazon account. 2. In the “pick your own organization” bar, search for “Youth Farm...

All Star Cider at Annual SOCC Spaghetti Dinner

On Saturday, Hawthorne Youth Farm cooked for and hosted the annual St. Olaf Community Campus Spaghetti Dinner. We made deliciously veggie loaded pasta sauce from our well-stocked freezers, 2 types of salad, NSJ raspberry brownies and SOCC sweet potato pie. The produce...

Check Out Seedfolks at Children’s Theatre Company

This year Youth Farm is partnering with the Children’s Theatre Company on their production of Seedfolks. The Children’s Theatre has long been an incredible resource for young people across the metro area, and we are enormously excited to be supporting...

Youth Farm at Chipotle Cultivate Festival

By Shanna Woods Over the weekend the Farm Stewards Asiya, Alice, Jordan, and Shanna led a information and activity table for Youth Farm at Loring Park. We made salsa for taste testing to allow attendees to experience the program from the youth and communities across...