Being a LEAD at Youth Farm is a big responsibility. You are charged with modeling community, farm skills, and empathy to young people who are molding their values and developing their interests. Even though Yasmin was young herself at fourteen beginning as LEAD who...
When I think about Youth Farm, I think about youth development, community connection, and food access. It interesting, as a staff you aim to support and shape youth experience. I have worked with Youth Farm as a staff and had the opportunity to support Mimi in...
As spring is finally upon us, not only does that mean that our farms will soon be blooming with vegetables and bustling with Youth Farmers, but also that for a number of our Project LEAD participants, they are graduating High School and entering their last summer at...
We held our south Minneapolis Project LEAD retreat last month in Knife River, just north of Duluth. It was a long trip in the van, but we had an incredible time bonding and building our team. The definite highlight was bushwhacking through a forest and walking on the...
We occasionally do a simple and fun reflection activity in our classes called Snapshot where each member of the group shares a moment of the day where if they had a camera they would have taken a picture. It’s been a busy fall for us at Youth Farm as we go...
