Southeast Pick-Up Notes:
We live on a very narrow gravel road, which can easily become congested
during pickup. Please take some alternative form of transportation
if possible. If
you drive, it's also extremely helpful if you park
at least a block away and walk in.
Please bring your own plastic, paper or earth-friendly bags. We
can re-use clean cardboard egg cartons.
Ask us about our bucket
exchange program if you’d like to bring your compost to
the farm.
We
are an urban farm in Southeast Portland dedicated to growing produce
for Portland residents, seasonally and sustainably. Our farm is
based on a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model. This means
that we grow for a set number of harvest shareholders who join us
at the beginning of the year. These households and families then
share in the bounty of the harvest throughout the growing season.
This provides financial support for the farmers early in the spring
when it is most needed. In return, we share the fruits of an abundant
and diverse harvest. In this way, the farm and families form a network
of mutual support.
To find out more about what we do, take a look through our site.
There’s an overview of the Farm and what it means to be a
shareholder in the How the Farm Works
page. We publish a monthly newsletter
with a Farm update, articles of interest, and recipes. Speaking
of recipes, we’ve also collected a few of our favorites on
a Recipes page. And if you'd like
a little taste of how good CSA vegetables can be, try dining out
at a restaurant that features
our produce.
But a website will only give you a taste of the true CSA experience.
For that, you might consider visiting
us. Or better yet, become
a member!
Chinese planners learn about sustainable land use practices
at Luscher Farm
"Laura Masterson is an urban farmer, and she is just the type of person
that China needs to hear," begins a story in the Lake Oswego Review on
a visit to Luscher Farm by 24 planners from the Chinese Ministry of Land and
Resources.
"Some 40 members of the Portland chapter of Slow
Food were on hand for a tour led by CSA farm director Laura Masterson,
who covered everything from beans and bugs to buckwheat," says a story
in the Lake Oswego Review.
“This group combines a lot of things I feel passionate about,” Laura
is quoted as saying. “It is concerned about the environment and social
justice. And these people love to eat!”
NOW HIRING FOR
TWO POSITIONS:
47th Ave Farm Crew Leader and Farm Apprentices!
If you have a sincere interest in farming, now's your chance to
act on it! Check out these great opportunities on our Jobs
at the Farm page.
WINTER SHARESSOLD
OUT!
Thanks to everyone for signing up so quickly for tasty winter shares!
If you missed your chance, please send
us an email with your contact info so you can be first in line as soon as
shares for Summer 2008 go on sale. We hit the big time: YouTube!
Director Rebecca Gerendasy's ambitious Cooking up a Story project
is now on YouTube, including two exciting pieces on 47th Avenue Farm!
Click the arrow in the middle of the image to view her most recent piece
right here, or click anywhere else on the image to go see it on YouTube -- where
you can help pump up its ratings with your vote! Thanks, Rebecca!
New video:
"Navarre - from farm to table"
As part of an article on "Farm-to-table
revolutionaries," Portland's
Oregonian produced a short but sweet little video on our
friends at Navarre and how
committed to community supported agriculture they are.
"As the day unfolds, the [vegetables delivered by 47th Ave Farm]
are constantly reconfigured into Navarre's vast list of possibilities
-- perhaps whole parsnips, scary roots and all, roasted with tarragon
perfumes, or high-rise fresh fruit pies with magnificently crimped
crusts. Taboada's sophisticated, adventurous reach has grown impressively
in the last year..."
Check out the video here!
Ready for our close-up: "The Secret Landscape
of Food"
shot entirely on our farm
Filmmaker Matt Giraud (a member of the Farm since its inception) has uploaded
a short film culled from footage he shot in the course of working on a documentary
about us. He describes it as "a meditative journey through the hidden terrain
of the vegetable world."
Keen-eyed farm members might recognize elegant squash flowers, chard, asparagus,
broccoli -- and the star of the show, ruby ball cabbage! -- from their own shares.
"Get close enough in the glancing early morning light,"
he says, "and vegetables become infused with the majesty of
cathedrals."
We
are an urban farm in Southeast Portland dedicated to growing produce
for Portland residents, seasonally and sustainably. Our farm is
based on a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model. This means
that we grow for a set number of harvest shareholders who join us
at the beginning of the year. These households and families then
share in the bounty of the harvest throughout the growing season.
This provides financial support for the farmers early in the spring
when it is most needed. In return, we share the fruits of an abundant
and diverse harvest. In this way, the farm and families form a network
of mutual support.