A Narrative of the University of Oregon Urban Farm

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Global Worming It’s Compost Tea Time

compost tea may 12

Currently Listening: Elder – Lore Compost tea is a wonderful thing.  We could get real technical here, but lets keep it simple.  In essence, the idea is that you have sugar and inoculated compost and we  fed it to the tomato plants on the new bed that has brand new soil and hardly any organics […]

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Sleepy Farm

The temperatures have really dropped over the last couple weeks here in the Willamette Valley. We wrapped up fall term of class by prepping the Urban Farm for winter. Our students worked on pulling out the last of the warm weather crops, like tomatoes and squash. We dumped all that “green chop” into the compost […]

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