September Food Work in Lyndale

Fall is maybe my favorite time of year at Youth Farm. Our programs slow down, food is pouring in, and we have the chance to get our hands dirty while reflecting on another summer program succesfuly completed. This season we’ve kept our Farm Stewards busy in the...

Gearing Up For Harvest Fest

We are hard at work gearing up for this year’s Harvest Fest. Our youth are beautifying their gardens by pulling those last pesky weeds, repainting sheds, compost piles are getting rebuilt, and laying down mulch. Through it all we’re harvesting a whole lot...

Lyndale Hosts Open Eye Puppet Show

On a beautiful July evening over a 100 Lyndale community members came together at Horn Towers to enjoy Open Eye Theatre’s Driveway Tour performance of Molly and the Magic Boot sponsored by LNA and Youth Farm. Children of all ages loved Molly’s story of...

Impact!

This summer Lyndale’s primary method of food distribution has been a family shares program. All summer youth and parents have been telling us how they’ve used the produce. We’ve heard about kids making and eating pesto, kale chips, and lots of green...

Iron Chef

Lyndale held an Iron Chef competition for a Fun Friday activity a couple weeks ago. Our 60 youth split into 10 groups to figure out the tastiest ways to prepare produce from the farms. Each group started off with a selection of kale, radishes, lettuce, spinach, and...

Summer Sun

The suns out! We’ve been celebrating the heat by keeping cool in the pool and making ice cream. Our hoop house is accelerating our summer and we’ve just about got jalapeños now...