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…

 

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,…

What’s there to say here besides:  We love Simington Gardens, they love our kids. Just another awesome day out amongst the chickens and the salad greens. The kids always leave the farm with dirty hands, smiling faces and something healthy…

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). …

This is Joshua Carpenter, the freshman farmer at the WIA funded OHDC youth farm. I am so thankful to President Obama and all the works programs he put in motion to help stimulate the economy—through providing training and jobs for…

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

Here are Cali, Josh, Nicole and Kara’s hands after a few hours of planting “enough lettuce to feed an elephant”. Nicole just dropped by and let me use a few of her photographs to show what they were all up…

sometimes the Farmers truly blow my mind with their awesomeness. One of the Farmers missed us on Friday Farm Day, so he left me this message: Joshua wrote: “Hey, sorry i missed you today, i went with Cali and Nicole…

It’s Halloween this weekend ( basically one of my most favorite american holidays, back in South Africa we didn’t get to trick-or-treat at all)!!! Katrin and I, and our dogs, got into the spirit of things… I was a beehive.…