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Are you looking for a great trip this summer?  The Village de l’An Mil in Brittany is a wonderful site for urban farming enthusiasts to visit. Uncovered in 1902, the remains of the medieval village at Melrand, situated on a plateau dominating the Blavet Valley, have been enhanced and brought to life with the help of […]

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There’s a great new place to get your urban farm supplies and learn how to be more sustainable!  UFH recently interviewed Eric Jonas to learn more about his Greenwood area store. 1.  Why did you start your store and how did you choose the location? I started this company out of my garage in December 2010 […]

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By Krista Arias Hi my name is Krista Arias. My family and I run the Tierra Soul Urban Farm and Guesthouse in Portland, Oregon. We explore traditional and healing foods, permaculture, and biodynamic farming at our experimental urban homestead. We have tended goats, chickens, ducks (including the famous Hettie Quackers), topbar hives of honey bees and an expanding […]

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By Laura Matter, Volunteer Site Leader at the Picardo P-Patch Here are some tips to keep your garden, and you, thriving this time of year: Keep it hydrated! Water existing plants deeply and your seedling beds often. Deep watering encourages deep rooting and seedlings are very shallow rooted, small and tender and susceptible to drying […]

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Herbs!

Sleep Away music to look at herbs… What are you growing in your garden?  Do you have a favorite use for herbs?  

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Happy May Day!

I love May Day.  I love the rich pagan heritage that lies behind it and I love the ending of winter and the coming of summer. In days gone by English villagers woke up early on May first and gathered blossoming flowers and branches and set up a maypole.  This poll was decorated with flowers and […]

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Spring is Charging Forward

Walking through the garden I smell the lilacs and see the starts taking hold in the rich dark soil.  The chickens want to be fed and the rabbit is munching on his pile of dandelions from a recent bout of weeding.  Soon the chive flowers will come and we will make a lovely lavender colored […]

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Sun and Dreams

Every year on a warm day in spring I feel the sun on my face and my mind cuts the tethers and wanders free with Yeats. There is something about this poem that conjures up for me the feeling of breathing in freshly turned earth and seeing growing things. I will arise and go now, […]

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SE Seattle’s Bradner Gardens Park is filled with interesting things to learn about and look at.  There are bee hives, flowers, a basketball court, working windmill, native plants, a cozy meeting room with a gas fireplace, garden art and one of the nicest mosaic adorned public bathrooms I’ve ever visited. This 1.6 acre park, located at 29th […]

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Dog Four, Owner Zero

I have a dog that just loves fresh veggies; pea vines, baby collard greens, arugula, you name it, he wants it.  As I have a small urban yard this has set up quite a dilemma, he needs a place to do his business, lounge and play and I need more, more and more planting space. […]

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