Ua Mer Farms

Ua Mer Farms Ua Mer Farms is owned by Susan Diane Mitchell and is located in the Historic Smithfield Community at the top of Dynamite Hill.

Susan grows fresh, organic and non-gmo, produce, herbs and flowers. Ua Mer (Wah-Mare) Urban Farm began as an act of divine inspiration to partner with Nature and use what we have to meet our own personal and family needs of fresh food access. Ua Mer is an ancient Kemetic name that means "Beloved Water." We named our urban farm for the sacred and precious gift that water is as the source of life, t

he fountain of life on Earth. Our home in the Historic Smithfield Community of Birmingham, Alabama, is in a "food desert," an area in which access to fresh food is not available or at a considerable distance to a community. Our situation is further compounded by a grossly inadequate public transportation system that makes fetching fresh food home a severe challenge and hardship for those without personal transportation. To meet our own needs, we began growing tomatoes, eggplant, Swiss chard, beans, squash, sage, oregano, mint and basil spring 0f 2015 to see what we could do. We had an abundance of fresh tomatoes throughout the growing season with enough to give away to friends and neighbors. We could have canned many of those tomatoes if we had planned for it. This gave us the encouragement to grow more tomatoes, our most abundant produce, and try and sell it at a farmer’s market or to our friends next season. It is our intention that Ua Mer Urban Farms will inspire other community members to grow food in Smithfield and create a Cooperative Community Fresh Market to foster a thriving local economy. Farmer-Susan Diane Mitchell
Farm Manager-

10/15/2022

Dynamite Hill-Smithfield Community Land Trust (DH-SCLT) must raise funds to … Majadi Baruti needs your support for Land Acquisition Fundraiser For DH-SCLT

https://gofund.me/308a0a00
04/06/2022

https://gofund.me/308a0a00

Sound Transportation Safe Transportation Safe and Sound "Everything in life… Majadi Baruti needs your support for Support for My Best Friend Susan !

09/26/2020
08/28/2020

People’s Budget Birmingham is a coalition focused on giving you a say in how the city spends your taxes! / El Presupuesto Popular de Birmingham es una coalición centrada en darle a la gente común una opinión sobre cómo la ciudad gasta sus impuestos!

Looking for this Elephant and no one wants to talk about it
04/14/2020

Looking for this Elephant and no one wants to talk about it

Hey! Has anyone seen an elephant?

09/22/2018

Support The Development of Dynamite Hill-Smithfield Community Land Trust

06/24/2017

We are so very thankful and grateful for the first two sales for Ua Mer Farms, Mr Willie Thomas owner of Thomas Land Clearing company. And the incomparable Zac Henson faculty owner of The Cooperative New School for Urban Studies and Environmental Justice.

We have herbs (sage, purple basil, lemon balm, Greek Oregano) and Swiss Chard left today !

06/23/2017
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06/17/2017
04/17/2017
04/17/2017

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10 Eleventh Court North
Birmingham, AL
35204

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Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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+12054131375

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Ua Mer (Wah-Mare) Urban Farm began as an act of divine inspiration to partner with Nature and use what we have to meet our own personal and family needs of fresh food access. Ua Mer is an ancient Kemetic name that means "Beloved Water." We named our urban farm for the sacred and precious gift that water is as the source of life, the fountain of life on Earth. Our home in the Historic Smithfield Community of Birmingham, Alabama, is in a "food desert," an area in which access to fresh food is not available or at a considerable distance to a community. Our situation is further compounded by a grossly inadequate public transportation system that makes fetching fresh food home a severe challenge and hardship for those without personal transportation. To meet our own needs, we began growing tomatoes, eggplant, Swiss chard, beans, squash, sage, oregano, mint and basil spring 0f 2015 to see what we could do. We had an abundance of fresh tomatoes throughout the growing season with enough to give away to friends and neighbors. We could have canned many of those tomatoes if we had planned for it. This gave us the encouragement to grow more tomatoes, our most abundant produce, and try and sell it at a farmer’s market or to our friends next season. It is our intention that Ua Mer Urban Farms will inspire other community members to grow food in Smithfield and create a Cooperative Community Fresh Market to foster a thriving local economy. Farmer-Susan Diane Mitchell Farm Manager-

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