Youth Farm and Market Project

Youth Farm and Market Project provides year-round, youth development programming for youths ages 9 – 24, 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 5 neighborhoods in the Twin Cities, Lyndale and Powderhorn in S. Minneapolis, Hawthorne in N. Minneapolis, Frogtown and the West Side of St. Paul.

YFMP employs a unique progressive programming model, where the outcomes of each program, Youth Farmers (ages 9-11), All-Stars (ages 12-13), Project LEAD (ages 14-18), and Farm Stewards (ages 19-24) building upon the outcomes of the previous set. Our goals are consistent through each program:

1) Build Young Leaders;

2) Promote Healthy Bodies and Minds;

3) Contribute to the Positive Identity of Children and Youth;

4) Create Neighborhood Connectedness and Opportunities for Contribution; and

5) Develop & Nurture Healthy Relationships.