Last Thursday, Youth Farm welcomed students back to school at the annual Jackson Elementary Carnival. Students and parents taste-tested salsa and took home fresh tomatoes from Youth Farm’s main farm in Frogtown. Youth Farm after-school classes start next week...
Written by Tyler Ryan This Wednesday, the Frogtown Youth Farm took a field trip to the Mississippi Market. We got a tour of the store and learned about the many differences between a co-op and a supermarket. The youth had many questions to ask and learned a lot about...
Written by Kia and Maya (Project LEAD) During Youth Farm last week, the main farm worked on their new compost bin. They built and painted it, and now it is ready for compost. In the afternoons, we made home-made slime and went to the library. On Friday, we took an...
Written by Kia (Project LEAD) Last Tuesday we took the youth farmers to Lake Phalen to go swimming. On Wednesday and Friday we took small groups out for ice cream and played water games. We had a fun week!
Every Monday, a small, dedicated group of youth farmers and staff meet in Frogtown to care for the three farms in the neighborhood. The group keeps the farms weeded and watered, and ready to go for programming each week. Today, youth farmers harvested one of their...
Written by Abdi (Project LEAD) Last Wednesday, Frogtown youth farmers took a morning field trip to visit Stone’s Throw Urban Farm. Youth farmers toured the farm and had a weeding contest. We weeded 3 rows in 20 minutes. We also helped find and squish potato...
