Frogtown Farm: Making Fresh Food Available to Neighbors
On top of one of St. Paul’s tallest hills lies one of the city’s newest food-related treasures. Here, tender greens sprout, a hoop house warms delicate produce, and carefully designed clover patches ward off erosion. It’s Frogtown Farm! The Farm is part of Frogtown Park, a new, 13 acre city park nestled between Victoria and Minnehaha Avenue. Stephanie Hankerson has been living out her dream as the community organizer for Frogtown Farm. A Midway resident for 20 years, she wit
The Greens Queens
Who's the Frogtown/Rondo Queen of Greens? That question got settled in early December in the Pilgrim Baptist Church basement, when 13 contestants went head-to-head for the cooking title. The community meal and cook-off was part of an Art of Food in Frogtown and Rondo initiative, intended to explore neighborhood food access issues. In the church basement, the big picture got obscured by a more immediate concern -- which of the many vats of greens really delivered? The gang of
