Youth Farm was honored to be presented with the 2013 Homegrown Hero Award last night at the Homegrown Minneapolis Annual Open House. We are humbled to receive this award with so much great work going on around the city. Huge thanks to the Homegrown Minneapolis Food...
The other day at a Hawthorne LEAD meeting, we totaled up the amount of food we grew at our St. Olaf and Nellie Stone Johnson gardens this season and it was 5,034.01 pounds!! We had some fun imagining and then Googling what 5,000 pounds of something looks like. We...
People often ask what we do with the food we grow. Step onto one of our farms during the summer and you’ll understand that while Youth Farm’s primary focus is on youth and leadership development, we grow a ton of food. While we sell some of the food to...
Almost two weeks ago, Hawthorne neighborhood got a shed. And not just any old shed. On a rainy Tuesday morning, a semi truck hauling a 40′ steel shipping container unloaded almost 5 tons of shed onto the parking lot at St. Olaf Community Campus in North...
Harvested lettuce from the hoop house, so we could attract beautiful mouse…in the church. (Just kidding) watered the green things while we listened to the birds perch. Weeded as much bad guy plants as we can, and we even met a policeman. (He came to our farm!)...
