This 23 page report has 14 pages of text, 1 of notes and 8 of photos.
In 2008 and 2009, Sunroot attempted to grow various grains, pulses and oilseeds under the auspices of “the Staple Foods Project”. While the goal in both seasons was to grow enough food to feed some number of [...]
On Saturday, three of us went to a Seventh Day Adventist Church in Newberg. We had been contacted by someone there interested in learning how to save seeds for vegetables and other crops. She said they had a lot of land to plant on, so perhaps we could work out something where we [...]
I write tonight from an acreage in the country, out past St. Helens, visiting folks who just moved out here from the city. There’s a fire in the wood-burning stove and a cat named Margot sitting near my feet. Sunroot Gardens farmed in these folks’ yard this past season, mostly carrots that were [...]
[NOTE: The following is an email sent to a list of local CSA farmers, in response to a question from another CSA farmer, who asked: "Just wondered if any PACSAC farms had noticed a decrease in prospective CSA share sales or interest as a result of the current economy?"]
Sunroot Gardens has been sold out of [...]
These are from the cover crop growing at the Hampton acreage in Milwaukie, where the quinoa grew in 2008. These are Austrian field peas, grown as a nitrogen-fixing cover, or for soup peas. Super sweet and delicious!
These will be inlcuded in Monday’s CSA share, along with baby rainbow carrots, also super sweet. Like candy, the [...]
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