Here is the mini tractor we just picked up, for taking care of the larger plots. Sunroot farmie Sara Monial can be seen, her face filled with glee as she falls in-love-at-first-sight with this potentially useful machine.
Twenty feet into the bed, the tractor stopped tilling. What was the issue? The drive-train broke!
Close-up [...]
On a lovely Cascadian spring day (that happened to be Earth Day and I didn’t even know until later), three of us hopped on our bicycles and did a quick turn through the Hawthorne District to hit up gardens for chicken food. We were hunting for and uprooting a particular variety of mustard greens [...]
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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 [...]
Pictured here on the luscious thigh of CSA subscriber Elaine Close is the first Dick-n-Ball produce of the 2010 Sunroot Gardens season: Radishes. The “dick” is a French Breakfast, and the “balls” are an unknown variety, round with the French Breakfast red/white combination.
Dick-n-Balls Produce is a trademark of Sunroot Gardens. That’s not [...]
On April 1st, we set out from the firepit garden on a Passover bike ride to several farming locations. It was a lovely sunny day, and the group harvested edibles for their seder plates, including maror (bitter herbs), such as horseradish root and parsley. One of us filled a bucket with [...]
Blue Scotch Kale, having survived a second winter, now bolting to flower. Seed originally found on roadside in 2007, with a “packed for 2001″ label on it. Planted out at Firepit that year, seed saved in 2008, yielding this delightfully frilly and sweet specimen.
Some kind of broccoli raab that volunteered last fall. [...]