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, [...]
For those who don’t know, Sunroot Gardens is an urban, bike-based agricultural operation that grows produce and staple crops for people who invest $ and for people who invest land/labor/goods & services. There’s much TALK about “sustainability”, barter economy, growing food-for-survival, etc. Sunroot Gardens is ACTION on these items, seriously, as [...]
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 [...]