Youth Farm and Market Project kicked off 2013 with our annual LEAD retreat. This year the retreat agenda focused on seasonal menus, farm planning, and working collaboratively between our 5 different neighborhoods. The collaboration started early by breaking into...
By Shanna Woods This fall I got a chance to work along side of the Lyndale farm stewards and learn all the ways you end the growing season. This year we are took on the approach of preserving food to use for past the the first frost. It was so exciting learning how to...
Over the weekend the Lyndale Neighborhood Association and Youth Farm celebrated La Posada with over 300 community members. Our Project LEAD were all over the event! They developed the menu, flyered before the event, welcomed guests as they arrived, ran musical chairs,...
If you have not had a chance to learn about Roots for the Home Team, it is collaborative effort spearheaded by dietitian Sue Moores, involving Youth Farm and Market Project, Community Design Center, Emerge Community Development, and the Minnesota Twins. Watch this...
By Shanna Woods, Farm Steward Since the age of eight I have been with Youth Farm. My evolution of involvement began as a youth farmer, to a Youth Farm Allstar, and then transitioned into a LEAD staff, and now a Farm Steward. Between the path of being a LEAD staff and...
Intermedia Arts’ Our Turn youth program visited the Lyndale crew back in April for a garden tour and to learn about our work. There wasn’t much in the garden yet, but here are Jesus, Niani, and Nazeem talking about what they do at YFMP and how it connects...
