Author Archives: Phil Rooney

About Phil Rooney

Phil Rooney is the Lyndale Program Director for the Youth Farm and Market Project.

Rolling in the Dirt

It was wet today! Lyndale ran program despite having to be inside for at least 2 extra hours today, hiding out while a wicked storm passed outside. There’s nothing like being cooped up for a couple hours to get those more »

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A Day in the Life

This week one of Lyndale’s LEAD staff brought her camera along with her. This gallery captures some of the highlights of a day at Youth Farm, including harvesting for Buying Club, turning compost, and body painting in Adventure Club.  

Posted in Lyndale

Pillsbury Farm Still Rockin After All These Years

Youth Farm and Market Project’s first farm is still rocking fresh produce and hot fun even after 16 summers. Here are a couple photos from the start of our second week. Yesterday the Pillsbury Farmers were painting signs to post around more »

Posted in Lyndale

Lyndale Dry Run

Its Kick Off Week for 2011 Summer Program! We are super hyped to be getting out into the farms with our youth and having some summer fun. The weather has been a bit of a damper to the week. All more »

Posted in Food Distribution, Lyndale

Lead Outreach Planning

On Monday the Lyndale Lead were developing an outreach plan for a community food assessment. Here are a couple photos from the meeting, courtesy of Sally Hagler Peterson. More info from the Lead on the project to come…

Posted in Lyndale, Project LEAD