Midtown Global Market Chili Cook-Off this Saturday

YFMP will be the beneficiary of Midtown Global Market’s Chili Cook Off being held this Saturday from 12 to 2 pm. A $3.00 suggested donation – all of which goes to YFMP! – will get you samples of chili throughout the market. Bring your friends, your family, your...

Everybody Loves Cookies!

Last Friday Lyndale had its second session of programming with LNA’s Latinas de Lyndale en Liderazgo (LLL) program. Through the LLL program Latina women in the Lyndale neighborhood learn community organizing skills through taking action on a community issue....

Mayor Coleman Visits Youth Farm in Frogtown

On Thursday, October 20, Mayor Coleman of St Paul visited Youth Farm in Frogtown.  Mayor Coleman rode the Frogtown circulator to the farm with neighborhood youth from the Boys and Girls Club and the Hallie Q Brown Center as part of the Sprocket’s out-of-school time...

Out of the classroom and into the Farms

Last week four Youth Farm neighborhoods hosted over 90 first-year Macalester students for “Into the Streets,” a day of community service for new students. It was the most volunteers to ever descend on Youth Farm in one day! Across our Minneapolis and St....

Community Shares MN Summer Summit

YFMP Executive Director Gunnar Liden and Associate Director Amanda Stoelb presented tonight at the Community Shares of MN Summer Summit, facilitating a group of brave volunteers in a 4 minute Iron Chef style salsa competition. The salsa ended up great, and we were...

Check out YFMP on the cover of the Seward Coop Newsletter

YFMP is on the front cover of the Seward Coop’s bi-monthly newsletter. There are some great shots of our microgreen operation in our greenhouse and a short article on what we do. Go check it out here. Aren’t those sprouts...