Don't stop Believin'
We could not be doing this without the support of our customers, our Landowner partners, our friends and families and so many other great people who are helping us in their own way. We are truly, truly thankful for it.
It is so true that doing something you believe in makes you happy. We don't think we could believe in this anymore than we do and we don't think we could be happier! Look at Us!!!!!!!!!
Soooooooo! What's going on in the world of City Garden Farms? Being at the mercy of the weather we made the most of the recent, short dry spell and fully prepared, tilled and seeded 'Mossy Point' Farm in NE Portland. It was great to spend a couple of days working on our largest, active site. We now have sprouting seeds beginning to pop out of that dark, rich, organic soil. And check out those beautiful, straight furrows! It's a farm in the city! It looked so good that the neighbor sharing Mossy Point's western border asked CGF to expand the farm into another 1500 square feet in their yard. Can you say "Mossy Point II...Mossy Peak...Mossy Fields"? !
Broc has been tilling, seeding and planting Bybee Gardens and Clinton Gardens in SE Portland, The Kiss Kiss Farm in N Portland and we were out at Sauvie Island over the w/e doing more of the same! Go Broc and Moss!!!
From this in Winter To this today!!!!!!
We've signed up to partner with additional landowners to create even more urban farms in the past 2 weeks. We now have land totaling a quarter acre in the city. Never has the phrase “the more we grow, the less you mow” rang truer!! Checkout our photo gallery to see us in action.
Moss has been busy signing up customers for our CSA Subscription program, administering the program and organizing our farmers market slots. Thanks to Moss we're going to be attending the following farmers markets:
Parkrose Farmers Market - Saturdays from 9am until 2pm
the brand new Lloyd District Farmers Market on Tuesdays from 10am until 2pm
Interstate Farmers Market - Wednesdays from 3pm until 7pm
possibly, maybe Lents International Farmers Market - 9am until 2pm on Sundays.
Go Moss!!!!
More word on the start dates at those markets to follow.
WE'RE IN THE NEWS!!!!!!!!!!! (well, we're going to be). The very real possibility that yours truly 'Moss and Broc' were going to be on The Live Desk w/Martha MacCallum on FOX channel 12 passed without incident yesterday as we were bumped by floods in Maine and election primary updates. However, we most certainly are going to be featured in the “In Portland” section of the Oregonian on Thursday May 8th. We posed for the photo shoot on Wednesday evening. Broc said he will never work under those conditions again and stormed off camera during the shoot. I think we got the shot we needed regardless. We also believe we have a radio interview lined up with KBOO radio in the near future. So watch for us in the news. Woohoo!
Broc and Moss will be attending the SPIN farming workshop sponsored by the City of Portland's Office of Sustainable Development on Sat 5/10/08. We are Portland's first practicing SPIN farmers and hope to be able to contribute to the event by sharing our experiences so far.Don't forget to check us out on line. We've been busy updating our website to keep you in touch with what we're doing. There's always something new to see at our photo gallery and read on our blog. We have also added some of our partners and favorite Portland businesses to our links page.
That's City Garden Farms so far. Let us know what you think.
Your Urban Farmers,
Moss and Broc
Thanks Shelley (Shell's Jewel's) Jewelry vendor and board member at the market...