One of our tried and true vegetable crops on the farm is kale – specifically this great variety of Italian ‘Dino’ or Lacinato kale. It is available from a few different seed companies and we can never seem to grow too much of it. It has a great blue-green color and really cool texture, like […]
Archives for January, 2011
2010 Garden Harvest Tally
A common sight at the Urban Farm, among the compost heaps and tidy beds, is our baby scale. A baby scale? I know! But it turns out to be the perfect-sized scale to weigh all of the produce we harvest from the farm. We keep monthly records of our harvests for a few reasons. People […]
Food Justice Conference
Check out this great event coming to the University of Oregon! The Food Justice Conference is from February 19-21 and will host great speakers like Dr. Vandana Shiva. Here is an excerpt from their site about the event: “Food Justice explores the history and future of our food system with a focus on three themes: […]