We're excited to announce that the Royalton YES! team has been selected as a Group Winner of a 2014 Lt. Governor’s Red Wagon Award! The Red Wagon Awards recognize groups of young people from across Minnesota who have worked together to increase civic engagement, improve academic achievement, and/or shown exemplary leadership in their community. The Royalton Youth Energy Summit (YES!) team has
YES! Students Tour Local CSA, School Garden and Apple Orchard
YES! students from New York Mills recently toured Lida Farm in Pelican Rapids where they learned about organic farming, wind turbine maintenance and how to mix really great soil. Tour guides Ryan and Maree Pesch, CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) owners and organic farmers, had the kids mix up blood meal, bone meal, and other nutrients into a soil mixture Ryan uses throughout the farm.
Reducing School Lunch Waste in New London-Spicer
Standing on the second highest point in Kandiyohi County, 20 YES! students, coaches and staff learned they were standing on 100 feet of trash. The Kandiyohi County Landfill receives over 37 tons of garbage a year and over 3 million gallons of paint and stain waste. This makes the Kandiyohi County Recycling Center a vital piece of the solution to reducing the amount of waste going to this
The Sun Shone Down on the Local Foods Workshop
Throughout the Milan Local Foods Workshop, every speaker and tour mentioned the power of the sun. Audrey Arner of Moonstone Farm started the day off by inspiring the students and explaining to them, "every one of you is a spot of light and creative potential to change western Minnesota through harvesting the sun". She mentioned that this included everything from high-tech approaches such as
New London-Spicer YES! Team Harvest!
This year the New London-Spicer YES! team has decided to go local with their food. They installed a passive solar greenhouse and tied in a vertical axis wind turbine. Last week they were able to harvest some of the produce from their greenhouse. They harvested 2.5 pounds of lettuce and almost 2 pounds of French Breakfast radishes. They look forward to harvesting more produce from their
WWG YES! Team’s Plastic Bag Recycling Project
This guest blog post is brought to you by the Westbrook-Walnut Grove (WWG) YES! Team, which is a part of their 2013-2014 Earth YES! class. As part of our Earth YES! Class we do many projects to better ourselves while learning valuable tips and methods to save our planet. We've done many projects in the past, we are doing a continuation of last years project: Plastic Bag Recycling. As of this