We build

Hello all urban farming enthusiasts, artists, and growers who have come to browse our humble blog. The Art Farm project has been moving steadily along. We began building our raised garden beds a while back and completed them a few weeks ago. Since then the plants have been pushing up healthy and strong. We also began and finished the foundation for our main structure. You may remember a post a while back about collecting tires. Well those tires have been put to good use. Here are some pictures of our progress.

Making planter

We made planters with the high schoolers out of reclaimed wood. Each student decorated their planter with paints. The wood box liners are plastic shopping bags. It was a fun project and everyone got some hands on experience growing plants. Tomatoes were the crop of choice but the herbs ended up working out the best with the size of most of the boxes.

Documentaries and lectures

Currently we are going every Tuesday and Thursday.

Allison Maxfield has been presenting a series of educational videos on these days

to help the students understand why growing local and organic is so important.

Visiting Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company

The artistic director for Artplay Theo Bunch made a pilgrimage with Eva Hall to Baker Creek Heritage Seeds to start

a dialogue. We will be using there seeds in our urban farm. They are a fantastic company, and shortly

after our visit sent us a large donation of seed. Thanks to them

we will have a varied and plentiful harvest.

Getting Tires

All of the foundations for every structure in Artfarm will be dirt compacted tires. Here the students collect them from

a near by auto garage.