You totally wanted to get a Sauvie Island/Helsing Junction/47th ave CSA share this year but you were too busy freaking out in beautiful summer weather. Understandable. The North Portland Farm is here for you. So are three, first-come-first-serve CSA shares. You can check out our map and website here.

This is one my favorite projects I've ever been involved in. Its beautiful, inspiring, fun, hilarious, and pretty radical overall. My ideal employment.

For those too lazy to click:

The North Portland Farm
Community Supported Agriculture and Community Supported Art Work
Our season is from July - October (17 weeks)

What may I find in my CSA box?
Over 65 varieties of vegetables, berries, cut flowers, and artwork

The North Portland Farm practices chemical free, biodynamic farming methods;
using drip irrigation and small plot intensive (SPIN) growing practices. Many of
our crops are grown from our own starts or seed.

Vegetables and Fruit:
Arugula: Roquette
Beans: Romano-Type Pole Beans, Dry Black Coco Beans, Liana Yard-Long
Beets: Chioggia, Lutz, Golden
Berries: Eliot Blueberries, Marionberries, Everbearing Raspberries
Broccoli: Dicicco
Carrots: Nantes and Sunshine
Cucumber: Lemon & Marketmore 97
Eggplant: Rosa Bianca
Jerusalem Artichokes
Kale: Sutherland Kale
Leeks: Giant Musselburgh
Lettuce: Kalura, Cracoviensis, Ermosa, Jericho
Melon: Chantarais, Passport
Onions: Green Onions
Peas: Sugar Snap
Pepper: Jalapeño, California Wonder, Carmen Sweet, Anaheim
Potatoes: Russet
Radish: Sora Potatoes: Russet
Romanesco
Scallions Red Beard
Spinach: Malabar
Squash:
Summer Squash: Scallopini, Yellow Crookneck, Green Zuchinni
Winter Squash: Butternut, Delicata, Pink Banana, Tromboncino, Jack O? Lantern
Pumpkin
Swiss Chard: Bright Lights
Tomato: Siletz, Stupice, Sweet Pea, Sun Gold, Golden Honey Bunch, Moskovich,
Taxi, San Marzano, Oregon Spring, Gold Nugget, Anais Noir

Herbs
Basil: Genovese, Purple, Italian Kitchen, & Thai
Dill: Dukat
Lemon Thyme
Lavender

Cut Flowers
White Dahlias
Polar Bear Zinnias
Amaranth (Decorative), Red Dye Hopi
Sea Holly

Artwork
Two works of art on paper will be received with your box each season

Pricing
CSA box
Once a week for 17 weeks
Vegetables, Berries, Cut Flowers and Artwork
500.00 donation

Eggs
a dozen fresh eggs
5.00 donation

Artwork Shares
100.00 donation
for 10 weeks
5 works on paper by your choice of one or a variety of artists

200.00 donation
for 20 weeks
10 works on paper by your choice of one or a variety of artists

Nigora Goat Fiber
4.00 an Ounce
Washed cleaned and carded

To sign up please call or email your name, phone number, return email, and
desired CSA share to
nwheat@portcitydevelopment.org and tdonovan@portcitydevelopment.org

Checks can be sent to:
Project Grow
Port City
2124 N Williams Ave
Portland Oregon 97227

Our harvest for 2009 begins the first week of July.

All CSA purchases are tax-deductible donations to Port City Development
Center.
Boxes can be picked up on Tuesdays from anytime after 2PM and left in our farm
refrigerator in the time after, at the corner of Williams and Tillamook in North
Portland.

The Story
Our farm was proposed in January of 2009 as an alternative to factory work for
adults with developmental disabilities who were working at The Port City
development center. The farm exists on two former vacant lots in the inner city of
Portland.

Socially engaged artist Natasha Wheat, proposed the farm to Port City
Development Center in January of 2009. Experimental grower and maker
Timothy Donovan soon joined her to help oversee the landscape design, plant
husbandry and construction of the space. Emese Ilyes provided care to the
participants in the program. Goat farmer James Ragsdale generously donated
his time and resources in finding goats for the farm, and provides his ongoing
care and animal husbandry knowledge. He also built the living quarters for our
pygmy fiber goats. Glenn Nardelli designed our chicken coop.

Project Grow
Port City
2124 N Williams Ave
Portland Oregon 97227
(Enter in back through Tillamook parking lot
growinginalldirections.org

Thanks Tim!!!

Man, do food stamps buy CSA shares???

Yeah, the tax-deductability of it is pretty much awesome. Might go for this next year just for the tax break :)