Urban Farm Hub is a place for you to learn what’s going on in the Puget Sound region’s urban agriculture scene, pick up ideas for your own urban homesteading projects and find ways to connect with local programs with a farming bent. We have both an Urban Farm Hub blog and a Facebook page at www.facebook.com/urbanfarmhub.
Writers
Diana Vergis Vinh
DianaI live in Seattle, Washington with my husband, three kids, a rabbit, a dog, six chickens and a rabid desire to cover every inch of my city lot in flowering or edible plants. Come join me on my urban farm and find out interesting and sometimes crazy ways to grow, cook and make your own stuff. I am the founder of the Urban Farm Hub and the primary writer and photographer for the blog.
If you have a story to share send me an email at ankataa@yahoo.com; I’d love to hear from you.
Richard Vinh
RichardI have always had an active interest in food and all the joy it brings. I started cooking at a very young age; starting off with pancakes and moving onto pies. My mother has always been interested in sustainable living, although i didn’t always have the vocabulary to label it as such. It wasn’t until the recent resurgence of the green movement that my mom stopped being “weird” and started being cool.
HelenHelen Vinh
Hello interested readers and urban farm enthusiasts,
My name is Helen and I am back from my travel .This summer will bring new adventures!
Hello Urban Farm Hub!
We’re a non-profit group bringing urban farmers, gardeners, bakers, cooks (and all those that aspire to be any of these things) together to trade homegrown and homemade items and related skills. We hold free monthly barter events and have a website where folks can barter all year round.
We’d love if Urban Farm Hub could share our story with others that would be interested in growing this community!
Our next barter is July 28th at the NW Solarfest in Shoreline. Please feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions.
Thanks for considering helping us to build the food movement!
Sounds wonderful! Send me a post at ankataa@yahoo.com and I would be happy to put it up.
Hey, guys; I’m pursuing a copy of http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2010/03/american-planning-association-issues-zoning-guide-for-urban-agriculture/
for a presentation to Flint, MI city council, which is coming up “404.” Any help would be appreciated, ty.
I am in the midst of a career change and am volunteering my heart out in the horticulture and urban farm community. Needing to find paid work in this field or something related after working for many years in K12 education. If anyone has any knowledge of where I can make a living, I would appreciate the help.
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A short story in the education of a gardener.Worked in local farming since age 12 BS in Hort, Penna. Rodale enthusiast, Fukuoka friend, WWOOFer, x country on bike, working on farms, arrived at the Good Shepherd Center 1980, volunteered and employee there 27 years as gardener, learning and teaching urban permaculture-holistic-urban-agriculture, Living in/stewarding Ballard 8 years, clothed the village with thousands of plants from my backyard-sharing plants from ’87-’95, started “GardenOpen” tradition-2x/year> 10000 visitors in that gardens life; moved out 2007 to Snohomish to start a farm-Skipley farm, on Skipley Road, bordered by 10 properties- it’s sub-urban. Now growing 2000 apple trees, 170 varieties, 200 seedless grape vines-15 varieties, 1500 blueberries-15 varieties, every berry you can grow, w/a few favorites. Nursery, CSA, Farm Markets, Landscape Design- how I pay for my passion of growing plants.
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Hello, my name is Gingi Freeman. I am currently appealing to my city to return my two miniature dairy goats that provide milk for my babies since I cannot produce breast milk – my breast tissue was removed as a teen from a birth deformity – and I use the milk to make organic baby formula.
The city initially threatened to fine me $1000 a day that I had the goats. Now they are willing to change the municipal code to allow my small goats that break no noise, health or trespass ordinances, but only if I foot the bill for rewriting the zoning code, which is $3598. I have recently started a Food Freedom USA chapter here in the Central Valley and I am organizing a large rally on June 1st outside of City Hall in Visalia to appeal to the city to allow small, responsibly owned food producing animals within City Limits (similar to what Denver adopted in 2011).
If you could help spread the word, let people know about our rally, or encourage people to contact my city and ask them to return my goats and change this overbearing and unethical ordinance, that would be AMAZING.
You can learn more at http://www.improgoat.com where I’m keeping all the information together for those interested.
Thanks for your time! <3
Gingi Freeman
559-772-7911
Hello,
Which groups besides Tilth & Master Gardeners (WSU Extension) offer classes on fruit tree pruning in Seattle?
Pat
City Fruit has great classes.
Hi there!
I’m writing to you because our organization, Sustainable NE Seattle, is seeking to put together a cob-oven-building work party, and would like to recruit someone knowledgeable to lead the event. Would you happen to know of anyone in the area to whom we might reach out? I appreciate your time.
Sincerely,
Patrick
Hey Flintopia has made a lot of progress, lemme find a real camera and i’ll have an update for ya 🙂
Mark Whittington
Sometime Project Manager
Flintopia, Michigan
Hi. I would like to contact Ed Douglas please. I bought a basket of his perhaps, from an op shop and just thought i would share it with him. Its my pride and joy knitting basket. It still has a txt and number on it and i have photos to send.
If this is the right one as it is labelled Collingwood.
Cheers
Victoria