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Week of June 14th
From our garden to
your kitchen!
A Youth Farm recipe using
this weeks produce
Wilted Beet and Greens
Salad with Orange
Vinaigrette
(Adapted from Harmony
Valley Farms CSA)
1 bunch beets with green
tops (or just green tops)
8 oz Spinach
Dressing:
2 tsp orange zest
cup orange juice
4 tbsp red wine vinegar
2 garlic scapes
2 tbsp parsley
1 tsp salt
cup olive oil
Directions:
Remove greens from beets
and save
Place beets in a roasting
pan with a little oil, salt
and pepper and water to
cover bottom of pan. Cover
with foil and bake at 350
until beets can be easily
pierced with a fork
(between 20 and 40 minutes
depending on beet size)
While they cook make the
dressing by blending all
ingredients
Remove beet stems from
greens and slice into 1 inch
pieces. Heat them in a
sauce pan with a bit of oil
and garlic scapes
Rinse beet tops and spinach
and add to the saut pan,
cover till greens are just
wilted.
Add dressing and enjoy!
What are you
making in your
kitchen with your
Youth Farm
veggies? Share
you recipes for our
Youth Farm West
Side yearbook.
Drop the recipes
A Weekly Newsletter of the West Side Youth Farm and Market Project
Youth Farm and Market Project provides year-round, youth development programming for youths ages 9
18, utilizing experiential education and training, urban agriculture, gardens and greenhouses. We build
youth leadership through planting, growing, preparing, and selling food. Youth Farm and Market Project
currently works in 3 neighborhoods in the Twin Cities, Lyndale and Powderhorn in Minneapolis, and the
West Side of St. Paul.
60 West Side youth attend our 8-week summer program where they experience healthy relationships
with peers and adults and contribute to their West Side community while they continue to develop into
young leaders.
The Youth Farmers are coming the Youth Farmers are coming!
Next week 60 youth from the West Side will descend upon the gardens to play,
harvest, bike, dance, and learn. Here is a look at what we have been doing to prepare
for them!
Project LEAD: is our year long internship and employment program for young adults
ages 14-18. During the school year, these interns learn youth development and job
skills while planning the gardens and other aspects of our summer program. During
the 8-week summer program, Project LEADers become the staff working with garden
and focus groups of youth ages 9-13 teaching them garden and social skills, planning
games and Fun Fridays, and being mentors to our younger participants.
Adult Summer Staff: Each spring Youth Farm recruits a diverse and talented crew of
adults (many from the West Side) to work as garden group leaders and focus group
leaders. This years crew includes a hip hopper, break dancer, and former Youth
Farmer, a chef, a former Project LEAD, and other energetic, mentors that have been
gearing up for 6 weeks to meet all of our Youth Farmers. The West Side Youth Farm
is proud to boost that our staff include young adults that were youth in the program
and that the majority of our new staff hires are West Siders or strongly connected
to the West Side community!
Together we have participated in a 6-week staff training program that includes topics
such as conflict mediation, cooperative learning, and garden trainings. We have
planned our fantastic focus groups (extreme sports, cooking, All Stars, and dance) and
we have filled our brains with piles of fun activities and games! We are excited for
you all to meet us. Next weeks CSA pick-up will be at the conclusion of our second
day of summer programming, spend some time meeting the staff and walking through
the (hopefully weed free) gardens!
To add to our summer program we are looking for volunteer garden support and
Summer Guest Chefs! Please contact Amanda to spend some time with our youth!
Community Partner Highlight
Cherokee Park United Church
Mission: Cherokee Park United Church is called to a life of
compassionate justice and to embody the boundless love of
Jesus. We confess that communities of faith have not always
celebrated the dignity and joyful diversity of all Gods creation.
Therefore, we declare Cherokee Park United Church to be an
inclusive, multicultural, antiracist, justice-seeking,
environmentally responsible community of faith. We seek a new
humanity where sexual orientation, age, gender, culture or
differing abilities are no longer a barrier to our living in just
relationship.
Youth Farms summer kitchen is located at CPUC. Stop by
at 371 W Baker to see what the Youth Farm chefs are
cooking!