Viviane Barnett: A Courageous Leader in Portland's Food Community. This determined Black Portlander and civic leader, sparked a transformative movement: Green Fingers Project, a community gardening initiative that defied the odds and became a symbol of resilience.

The 2023 turned 2024 Farmbill is an impactful and important opportunity to inform and shape our Local, Regional and National Food System Policies. Land Access is a huge ask and point of concern for todays young & beginning farmers. Like Farmer Michelle!

2022 From the Field View: a recap of last year’s season just in time to start new this year. Our vibrant camas plant is pictured in the foreground, a prized perennial.

A picture of Letitia Carson Lavadour provided by Joey Lavadour

CSA is Not for Everyone and That’s OK!

How to know if Community Supported Agriculture is Right for You.

The Bland & The Beautiful : Redefining Abundance in Food Systems -

Farmer Dexter explores agriculture’s biggest issues facing farmers today.

Welp, we got our hot dry weather for a few days, didn't we?! Sometimes farming is making decisions and executing plans in a calm and orderly fashion, and sometimes you just kinda ... run from one increasingly urgent situation to the next and hope to catch your breath by the end of the week.

Fiddleheads poke through sun dappled trees

Mind, body, and Farm - How do farmers manage stress?

Farmer Michelle talks self care, stress, and strength in this month’s edition of The Farmer’s Desk.

The Generational Resilience of Seeds : Farmer Michelle explores the epigenetics of the farm and in food sovereignty

Image of Frederick McKinley Jones

On finding balance, decolonizing and rebuilding better systems.

For now though, I am here; standing on human feet and feeling the weight of loss and longing. The seed saving process keeps me lucid, Makes me feel like my life has value and importance. I matter because these seeds want a relationship with me and my family just as much as I want a relationship with them and theirs. We find ways of being there for each other, it's very quiet but they know that's just what my brain wants. 

In the midst of a global pandemic was a national and world-wide social justice uprising for Black Lives Matter, as the awareness of the intersectionality of Social, Environmental and Economic justice grew so did a call for Land Back and Indigenous Sovereignty. Meanwhile, in India, the world’s largest social uprising is led by farmers- farmers of color who’ve been deeply impacted by colonialism. Our tiny farm sits on the precipice of these calls to action, embracing and embodying Food Sovereignty in Action.

“There’s always much to be thankful for, I am thankful for the sacrifices made so that my existence could be realized. I am thankful for resilient, bold, strong ancestors who survived famine, persecution, pandemics, and colonization. You, reader, no doubt have family not so long ago and so long forgotten to thank for surviving similar burdens. I’m thankful for sweet, tangy berries, savory squash, garlic sauteed greens and all the nutrition the world provides that asks so little in return. At x̌ast sq̓it (hast squeit), Good Rain, we farm in reverence, we give our thanks everyday, in practice, presence, intention.”

“ The past few weeks have been busy and they are only getting busier. It’s spring on the farm, we’ve felt the onslaught of seeding since March. Breaking open the earth after a winter’s slumber, amending soil that hadn’t evolved to grow my great french ancestors food, soil that is eager to have the roots of the native plants etching through its layers. And all throughout the normal hectic start of a season there is a pandemic. “