Global Youth Service Day was once again a huge success thanks to our dedicated volunteers from Comcast, the Youth Farmers that led their own work crews, and our amazing community partners. For the second year in a row Chipotle (on…

  We set about 1500 ladybugs free in the garden today to get a handle on aphids and other critters. It was great!

 

  reduce, reuse, repurpose. we truly live by those words on the farm. A few trees needed to be limbed so we could get the sun to stream in, and we had a couple of trees fall down this past…

Our market season is finally starting! Every saturday morning we harvest at 6am, package our salad blend which contains: Mache (corn salad), Raspberry Sorrel, Red Sails, Red Oak Leaf Lettuce, Buttercrunch, 3 varieties of Chinese Mustard, 2 Varieties of Kale,…

Jovanna on the beach Every Spring we take the farmers to Astoria for a weekend. During that weekend we spend time on Oregon/Washington history, civic engagement, enviromental education and life skills (like knowing how to make a fire, or s’mores). …

  1. It takes more than just love to grow a garden. You also need to know what you’re doing – so you don’t go around dead heading eggplants (to clarify, “dead heading” is when you remove flowers from a…

Thanks to Joanne Bengtson at the City of Tigard’s Neighborhood Network Program for highlighting our farmers, on on our favorite month too (how we long for July to get here so we can be out farming full time again..*sigh*). Above…

20 bales of alfalfa hay = 20 self-composting raised beds! That’s the plan, at least. We are hoping that when we revisit these bales in early spring they will be soft and composted in the middle, so we can plant…

  Every great idea starts with a plan. ABOVE: The Plan ABOVE: Krystal beginning to execute The Plan