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A block party on Youngstown’s south side Saturday afternoon helped launch a new program for the neighborhood.

For many, Saturday’s Steelton Run of the Mill Bar Crawl was a trip down memory lane.

The Rocky Ridge Neighborhood Association will host a cookie-table open house at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at 138 S. Hazelwood Ave.

Youngstown State University’s Biological Science Department, along with a dozen inner-city children, will be planting 100 concord grapes on property converted into a vineyard from 9 a.m. until noon Sunday on the corner of West Ravenwood and Idlewood avenues on the South Side to teach children how to make jellies and jams.

As the Farm to Table movement is growing nationwide, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said the popularity of farmers markets also continues to rise.

There are many ways to pick up locally-grown produce in the Valley, including at Iron Roots Urban Farm, a 1.7 acre farm on the south side of Youngstown which is having its first plant sale this year.

Iron Roots is a project of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation.