Hopeful Farm 2013 - All Produce To Be Donated to Local Food Banks

Last year we did a test/pilot organic veggie garden on a farm to see what worked best in this region (So. Oregon), and how we could produce the highest yields with the least amount of effort. The photos below attest to our success:

DURING:

A baby visitor snoops through the zuke-corn patch

All excess produce was donated to our two local food banks. We're talking at least a case each week from July through October. That's how prolific things were.

So it's with great gusto that we've been gifted use of farmland again this season to begin Farm v 2.0! Here's the humble beginnings so far:

The back section is going to be a corn field, and the six squares are going to be various veggies. The method utilized is called lasagna gardening, or sheet composting, combined with square-foot gardening. These two combined methods reduce weeding and labor while producing twice the yield of traditional row gardening. Not only that, almost all of our materials are FREE. We use manure from local stables nearby, the tires are free and so is the cardboard, which acts as a weed/grass suppressor while inviting earthworms to tunnel upward.

More to come...