The Share
This year City Garden Farms CSA subscription will be offered at $600 for a full share. This should be enough vegetables for a household of 3 to 4 people. Those of you who don't need a full share are encouraged to "Share your Share".  If you do choose this option please make your own financial arrangements with the folks you share with.  Thanks!

We are offering a limited number of 1/2 shares at $400 for the season (good for 1-2 people per week)

The Season
Our season will run for 23 weeks from June 17th to November 18th. Our last actual pick up will be Nov 4th where we will provide the equivalent of 3 weeks worth of storable produce for you.  This will include lots of freshly harvested produce for your Thanksgiving dinner.  Items will possibly include potatoes, onions, winter squash, parsnips, rutabagas, etc.

Pick Up Sites
We are pleased to announce that we will again be offering pick up from one NE location and one SE location.

NE Location: Wednesdays at 4425 NE 70th Ave,  5-7pm
SE Location: Wednesdays at 4319 SE Bybee Blvd,  5-7pm
 

Please note... We will be unable to provide an "after hours" pick up service this year.  It is never a problem to send someone in your place to pick up your produce.  We don't want you to miss a single week of our freshly harvested, ultra-local produce.

Sign up
All 2009 customers (including returning customers) are asked to sign up through our new membership signup page It's a very simple and safe system. Please note that we are asking that you not send checks or deliver cash to us.  Purchases should be made through our website via Google Checkout 

Payment
You will be asked to pay a non refundable $100 deposit to secure your 2009 membership.   Customers will also have the option to pay the full amount at that time. The remaining  balances of $500/full share or $300/half share should be paid by the following dates:

          $250 Full share or $150 half share by Thursday 30th April 2009
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          $250 Full share or $150 half share by Sunday May 31st 2009

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) consists of a community of individuals who pledge support by purchasing a subscription to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes the community's farm.

Typically, "share-holders" of the farm pledge in advance to cover the anticipated costs of the farm operation and farmer's salary. In return, they receive a subscription of the farm's bounty throughout the growing season. Subscribers receive a weekly basket of fresh, local, and seasonal produce.    

The CSA program also provides a place where people can come together as a community, both at the local pick-up sites or when they come to food/farm-related events hosted by your CSA farmers (Dan and Martin)     

Our CSA programs give people the chance to contribute to the sustainability of their community, meet  people with similar values and of course eat amazing, locally grown, organic produce. At City Garden Farms we also believe that a CSA subscription can help you or your family's budget by paying a set price for the cost of Organic Produce as opposed to dealing with rising food costs associated with food trucked in from 1000's of miles away. We can minimize produce prices by growing food as locally as possible, take the fuel out of your food equation and give you the piece of mind of knowing who's growing your food for you.

Sounds pretty good so far but .........What do I get?

The vegetables we offer are seasonal. Different vegetables ripen at different times of the year. Here is an example of what our standard share looked like at the height of the 2007 season.

The site has some amazing facilities including a Hoophouse, chickens, an open cob pizza oven and a teepee frame no less which we hope to make cozy and comfortable enough for someover night sleepovers at the farm.

We've also been hard at work getting some of our city garden farms ready for the season. During a particularly pleasant Thursday afternoon in February Broc and Moss prepared 'Trevor's yard'. We've been checking on the progress of someover wintering garlic at Jill's which is doing just fine. We've got 900 heads of garlic growing there!

Broc and Moss recently took part in an urban farming  event at the People’s Food Co-op in SE Portland.  It was a community meeting and discussion on the topic of urban farming.  lots of interested people showed up to explore the topic of urban farming and what it means for our community.  We'd like to thank Calliope from Calliope’s Table for organizing this event.  We're sure this is the first of what will be many community efforts to explore and develop the concept of urban farming. 

Summer 2008

The more we grow, the less you mow.

City Garden Farms is Portland's premier pioneer of urban agriculture. We want to partner with you to farm your unused, underutilized lot, plot or yard to grow abundant amounts of local vegetables for you in Portland. What we want to do most is produce food in the city.

If you have a lot, plot or yard you'd like to hand over to an urban farmer to grow vegetables, we want to farm your land in the city. We're ready to visit your land and assess it for possible use in our network of back yard farms. If this or any of the following points appeal to you, contact us to set up a consultation.

• You are interested in becoming part of the burgeoning local food movement.

• You have a minmum of 1000 sq ft (eg 20x50 or 30x35 etc) of land (in Portland) or a yard that you just want to see put to good use... and that will benefit all of us. 

• You would like to look out your kitchen window and see vegetables rather than grass growing in your yard.

• You have always wanted a garden in your yard, but were just never successful with the garden you started.

• You don't have time to grow vegetables for your family but picking fresh vegetables from your yard is something you desire.

• You are committed to feeding your family organic and gmo free vegetables.

• You understand that using unsustainable fuel sources to truck and fly in food from around the world just doesn't make any sense. (We intend to reduce fuel usage as much as possible thus stabilizing the prices we can offer for our vegetables.)

• You have read any of Michael Pollan's books.

• You want to understand and participate in sustainable agricultural practices.

• You want to eat the heirloom vegetables your great-grandparents enjoyed.

Please contact us if you would like to partner with us to grow food for Portland, in Portland and be sure to read our Landowner agreement

Thanks,

Broc and Moss