Will Learn for Produce!
The taste of a freshly picked tomato straight from the vine of the plant that you have grown yourself is a taste like no other. If you have never had a bite of a juicy tomato fresh from the garden, you are missing out. At the Urban Farm and the Columbia St. Garden, we grow […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We had a very energetic group of kindergartners visit the Urban Farm back in May. They learned all about growing a garden to make food for healthy meals. They each planted some pumpkin seeds at the end of the sunny afternoon. Some were more careful than others with planting, but pumpkin seeds are very forgiving. […]
It’s summer time at the Urban Farm and the living is definitely easy. Our summer term class has been spending most of their time on the farm trying to keep on top of harvesting. Last year we planted way too many zucchini and crookneck squash plants. We adjusted things this year in the hopes that […]