Youth Farm and Market Project kicked off 2013 with our annual LEAD retreat. This year the retreat agenda focused on seasonal menus, farm planning, and working collaboratively between our 5 different neighborhoods. The collaboration started early by breaking into...
Hawthorne winter after school programming kicked off this last week at Nellie Stone Johnson Community School (NSJ). We teach after school cooking and farming classes at the school each Monday as part of the YMCA Beacon’s After School Program at NSJ. Last week we...
If you have not had a chance to learn about Roots for the Home Team, it is collaborative effort spearheaded by dietitian Sue Moores, involving Youth Farm and Market Project, Community Design Center, Emerge Community Development, and the Minnesota Twins. Watch this...
Our names are Trayvionne and Raven and we had a fun experience of fund raising. This is Trayvionne’s first time and it was great and we had a lot of food we had bread and spaghetti. youth farm was raising money for st. Olaf...
Written by Elena Haynes, a student with the HECUA at the University of Minnesota who is interning with YFMP in Hawthorne Neighborhood. For the past two months I have been interning with JP Mason at the North Minneapolis Hawthorne Site of Youth Farm and Market Project....
Hawthorne Youth Farm All Stars and Project LEAD had blast this last Saturday! A perfect fall afternoon, we ventured down to Deardorff Orchards. It didn’t matter that most of the apples were off the trees by this point in the season; there were plenty of apples...
