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J-School class project on Organic gardening features the Urban Farm
http://blogs.uoregon.edu/cwicks1w13/the-urban-farm-promoting-organic-farming-in-a-city-setting/
Back to the Future
http://chronicle.com/article/What-Would-Great-Grandma-Eat-/130890/
Pomme de parterre
Ever wonder what the power of 1000 potatoes sounds like? Well, you don’t have to worry anymore. Go here: http://graphicstandards.org/pdp.htm
Signs of spring and some thoughtful words from E.E. Cummings
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty .how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic […]
Local Farmers in the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/us/06farmers.html?_r=2&hp Usually you know that you’ve arrived when you make the New York Times but some local friends arrived some time ago. Kasey White and Jeff Broadie of Lonesome Whistle Farm have been featured in today’s Times for their work in growing heirloom beans and grain. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/us/06farmers.html?_r=2&hp They are involved with the Southern Willamette Bean and […]
Food For Thought Conference/University of Portland
University of Portland Food for Thought Conference, April 14-16, 2011. Food for Thought begins April 14 with a multi-media discussion about meat production with Bon Appetit CEO Fedele Bauccio, a member of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production. The lecture will be followed by a hormone-free, antibiotic-free meat tasting. Friday, April 15, the […]
The Urban Farm as a Class
The Urban Farm hosts over 200 students each year over the course of three terms. The primary focus of the class has to do with teaching students how to grow their own food. Working in teams, student urban farmers become the stewards of the farm’s vegetable beds, orchards, greenhouses, compost systems and general spaces. For […]
Dino Kale
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 […]
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 […]