A Ten Session Course in Urban Farming and Small-scale Grain Production
When: Every other Saturday, June 5 to October 23, 8am-3pm
Where: Various farm plots around Southeast Portland, plus suburban & rural country acreages.
Topics to be covered:
* Year-round vegetable growing and harvesting in the Cascadian bioregion
* Staple crops: Planting, cultivation, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
* Gardens come and go in the Sunroot network. The plot in longest continuous relationship with me was begun just three years ago this spring, in April of 2006. This is the Cora Garden, and has been called “my favorite”. Mostly medicinals there, though we enjoyed sunchokes from it this winter. From 2007 through the [...]