A Narrative of the University of Oregon Urban Farm

Archives for April, 2015

Life Alive!

Currently listening: Menace- Best of Today I went around and just took pictures of both classes and both locations, the Columbia street and the UO one. I’ll elaborate more on that later, but first I want to post these pictures! Morning Class at UO Urban Farm: Lauren’s group examining the bee’s: Harper’s group setting up […]

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Olive You Lettuce Bee Together

Currently listening: Sheer Mag- Fan The Flames We have 97.46 pounds of harvest for the month of April! Imagine if we had been recording for the winter term too! Epic :] I am pumped and believe gardening is such an important part of LIFE! How blessed we are to be able to participate in such […]

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These Bee Puns Are Just Winging It

warre bee home

Currently listening: Lecherous Gaze- Animal Brain Saturday (April 5, 2015) I got to watch bee’s go into a new home. A Kenya (top-bar horizontal hive) and a Warre  Langstroth hive :], Italian honey-bee’s in one and European in the other. Before: “After” (Since the bee’s were still adjusting to their new home, I wouldn’t quite refer […]

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Not Rhubarb Pie!

Currently listening: Tom Waits- Rain Dogs Recipe time! I think during every class I get asked, or hear someone else asking “What do I do with this? / How do I cook or eat this vegetable?” Today we harvested rhubarb, I wanted to make something else besides ‘strawberry-rhubarb pie, that if you add enough strawberries […]

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Winter 2015

Currently listening: Blue Cheer- Vincebus Eruptum It just so happens that I have some scattered pictures from winter term available to share with you! Jan 24 (Saturday Session): We went over to River Bend Farm/Orchard to learn and help them prune their pear tree’s! Before (not our handy work): After: February 3: I transplanted an […]

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The Time Has Come

Currently listening: Slow Season- Mountains Hello there! The time has come! The time has come to reawaken The Urban Farm blog again, and sometimes this means different viewpoints from many people and different authors; how beautiful!  This reminds me much of how the Urban Farm itself operates, many team leaders working together in one shared […]

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