Cookies, Cookies, Cookies!

On Friday and Saturday, we got our Cooking Class, All Stars and LEAD back together to host our annual Hawthorne Cookie Bake! We made 8 different varieties of cookies and had a ton of reconnecting before winter break.  

Greenhouse Party and Mini-Field Trip

To celebrate our final greenhouse class of the fall the Youth Farmers decided we should have a party.  With music, decorations, dancing, courtyard soccer, gummy worms, and guests, we celebrated the past seasons accomplishments.  This fall there was a lot of be proud...

Community mapping in Powderhorn

Monday night Powderhorn Project LEAD got together and drew up a map of our ‘hood. We included, our gardens, our homes, helpful neighbors, community organizations, cafés, and religious institutions! It was a lot of fun to take some time to reflect on how many...

Whats your favorite way to cook Collard Greens?

Every summer we’ve grown collard greens, and it is the crop that is most likely to mystify our youth and families. We hear, “How do we eat this?” every week we send it home. This week Project LEAD each harvested a pound of collards to take home, each...

Astonishingly “Adult” Things

There was a very interesting Opinion article in the Star Tribune a couple of Sunday’s ago by Ted Kolderie entitled, “Let’s give adolescents a chance to grow up.” Ted argues, and I am severely paraphrasing here, that we may need to reset the way we...

Apple Harvest In Lyndale

We’ve had a bountiful harvest of apples this fall from our trees in Lyndale. We have three different varieties growing between our Pillsbury and Horn Towers Farms. We spent a couple weeks in September  freezing and canning apple sauce with our Farm Stewards,...