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Cooking Up A Storm
The Youth Farmers in our Humboldt/OWL cooking class have been cooking up a storm every Monday and Wednesday, so you can thank them for the snow! We recently made a big batch of Korean Black Noodles and rolled a bunch of sushi. Good food, good...
Youth Farm welcomes new Board Members
We were excited to welcome 5 new members this fall to our Board of Directors. This new cohort includes Deb Kierstead, from MCCA, Genevieve Saldibar from Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, Valeria La Rosa from Lifetime Foundation, Shanna Woods from Neighborhood House (and...
Wellstone cooking class has begun!
The St. Paul team of farm stewards, interns, and LEAD are up and running in the Wellstone kitchen, to start up our community cooking class. Last week we made a big pot of vegetarian chili, corn bread, and an apple pie! All are welcome to join the class, every Tuesday...
Final Fall Harvest on the West Side
The crazy warm weather has allowed for harvesting produce far into fall. We have harvested the last of our kale, peppers, winter squash, radishes, kohlrabi, and collard greens. A work group from Conservation Corps joined us early on a Saturday to harvest 120 pounds of...
Youth Farmer in a Photo Contest!
The Minnesota Valley Wildlife Refuge is hosting a Youth Photo Contest and Lily, a Youth Farmer in Frogtown, is a participant! She took this photo of a Monarch Butterfly this summer during a Fun Friday activity at Como Lake. Here's how to vote for Lily's amazing photo!...
Farm Days at Nellie Stone Johnson Community School
This week students at Nellie Stone Johnson harvested the farm at their school. In total 200 students harvested over 250 pounds of food! The hallways were a buzz with news of grape tasting, collard green harvesting, and hot pepper sampling. Bouquets of kale could be...
Fall program kicks off!
Last week we kicked off fall programming with cooking classes in both our Lyndale and Powderhorn neighborhoods. Farm Stewards Zainab and Jesus and youth from Lyndale and Powderhorn prepared amazing first meals using produce from our gardens. Egg plant parmesan...
Taste of the Farm Menu and Auction Items
For those attending (or those needing just a little motivation to purchase last minute tickets), here is an overview of the Dinner Menu as well as Raffle and Live Auction items available. We will have these at the event too, but thought it might be helpful for some...
Sponsor Highlight: Juut Salon bringing us Pedicabs!
Thanks to the generosity of a sponsorship from Juut Salon, we will have a fun addition to our Taste of the Farm Dinner this year - Pedicabs! Because our Lyndale Neighborhood program has 3 farmsites that are a couple blocks away, we thought it would be fun to expedite...
Welcome Hawthorne Organizer Marcus Kar!
This week Youth Farm is honored to welcome our Hawthorne Community Organizer Marcus Kar! Marcus comes to Youth Farm with deep connections on the Northside, a passion for community and relationship building, an ability to use music as a tool for community and youth...