Full Cellar Farm offers weekly vegetable CSA shares sized for smaller households, as well as bulk produce for preserving and storage!
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We had a fun farm photo shoot yesterday with friend and CSA member Michael Chapman. The weather was in full summer/fall transition, from pouring rain to moody clouds to partial sun and even a rainbow. We can’t wait to share what Michael came up with!
I won’t say it was light work, but today many hands made much work and got about 6,000 more plants in the ground for our late fall and winter shares! Big props to the crew, who stuck it out as the temps climbed into the high 90s. ☀️💪🏼💦🌱
We had to stop by to try our basil and summer squash on their amazing pizza. Pay them a visit in downtown Troutdale, or their new location in Fairview! They’re the best pizza in East County!
Hi friends! My good friend Danielle's husband, Reid, was in a terrible bike crash in early April, which left him paralyzed below the shoulders. Now that he's back at home, he requires 24-hour care, much of which Danielle is doing herself, along with her full-time job. They have mind-boggling out-of-pocket costs, despite having health and longterm care insurance, and with the additional loss of Reid's income this is devastating for them.
They've started a fundraising campaign so they can buy a wheelchair van to help Reid get to medical appointments. Having this freedom will greatly increase their quality of life. Donations are fully tax-deductible, because they are using a reputable medical expense non-profit to shepherd the funds. If you have any ability to give, even a small amount, it will make a difference in the lives of these amazing folks. They are both caring and generous people, and what they are going through breaks my heart. Here's a link to the fundraising site: https://helphopelive.org/campaign/24110/
Please also share with anyone you think might help!
🚨Our online store is up and ready for orders! We are excited about this week’s offerings. Link in bio 👀
🫛In case you missed it, we now have an online store where you can purchase vegetables for pickup at one of our five sites around the city, at the farm, or via home delivery.
🥬 Place orders by Sunday night. Veggies delivered on Wednesdays.
🥕 This week we have: snap peas, scallions, lettuce, kale, collards, chard, lettuce, radishes & parsley 🌿
We now have an online marketplace!
🫛Every Friday we will be opening up our online marketplace where anyone can place vegetable orders.
🥦Orders can be delivered to one of our five Portland drop off sites for free or delivered to your house for a fee.
🥬All deliveries will take place Wednesday and orders need to be in by the end of the night Sunday.
We’re feeling pretty happy with this week’s share! (Our first week was great too, but we didn’t take a picture. 😆) Bok choi, romaine lettuce, salad turnips, cilantro, snap peas, purple mizuna, broccoli, and spinach. Can’t wait to eat dinner!
Another day, another deer fence. Deer have been browsing hard on our dry bean planting (which is otherwise looking 👌🏼) down by the creek, so we moved a fence from our ready-to-harvest lettuce near the barn to protect them. Juggling electric fence that’s not meant for regular moving is time consuming (especially when your reel breaks and makes a hot mess of your electric rope) but you do what you have to where deer are concerned.
A fresh morning rainbow started our day Monday, the beginning of our CSA season! It was a good omen for the harvest, which has been abundant and green.
If you’re like us, you’ve been dreaming about juicy tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, peppers, and all that summer veg. There are still a few spots left in our summer CSA! As a member you’ll get:
🫛 22 weeks of organic & certified produce grown just for you!
🌶️ weekly home delivery or pick up from the farm or one of several locations across east Portland
🍑 add-on fruit shares from our local partners () and mushrooms from
🥔 loads of fun at our on-farm events like our annual potato dig and harvest festival
🥦 support your local economy and invest in a farm that values sustainability and centers its workers!
🌻 Check out the link in our bio for more info & to sign up!
Our first harvest of lettuce is heading over to tomorrow. We’re so excited to be working with them this year!!
Farm life lately: seeding winter squash, machine maintenance, hand w**ding carrots and parsnips, tomato trellising, planting, and so much tunnel pampering 💛 (not pictured).
Okie dokie y’all, our first harvest in quickly approaching just four weeks!! If you haven’t signed up for a CSA share yet, we’ve got you! There are a few spots left in our summer/fall share, and we would be thrilled to be your farmers this year 🤓 If you have questions about what our CSA is all about, head over to our website for more details (link in bio) or feel free to reach out directly!
We have several pickup locations in Portland, farm pickup in Gresham, and home delivery options. We also accept SNAP and are happy to set folks up with payment plans as needed. Please sign up by *May 20* to guarantee your 22 weekly boxes of certified and organic veggies grown right here in Gresham!
Our latest experiment for 2024: transplanting dry beans!
For years we’ve had mixed results direct seeding our dry beans. The w**ds quickly outpace and/or stunt them and sometimes we only yield enough for next years seed, or we make the tough decision to mow them down.
But at this years ‘s Small Farms Conference, Hayley Park blew our minds when she presented her findings from many trials of transplanting dry beans! Her thorough research gave us all the encouragement we needed, and we figure we don’t have much to lose.
So here we go! One more round of seeds in the prop house, we plan to plant them early enough so they flower (and bear fruit) before the big heat sets in. They’ll also be easier to w**d! We are cautiously optimistic that we may finally get to fire up our bean sheller (which we share with ) and share this beloved musical fruit in our winter CSA once again. 🫘
Meet Rachael!
This is Rachael’s 6th season (!!) with Full Cellar. She’s been an instrumental part of the farm ever since, a natural leader and problem solver, this farm just wouldn’t be the same without her. Rachael’s laugh is infectious and her positive attitude keeps us all afloat. She has ingenious and intuitive solutions to most of the farm’s problems and when she’s not around we find ourselves asking, What would Rachael do?
Born: Columbus, OH
Favorite farm gear: F***y pack! Rachael keeps hers stocked with her tools (and snacks), an essential for tractor work. But do ask her about her giant Baggu hat, which keeps her protected and easy to spot around the farm.
Favorite farm task: Tractor work 🚜 mowing, moving pallets, digging potatoes, anything that makes her feel like a heavy machine operator. Rachael also has the magic touch with our most finicky farm machines.
If Rachael was a vegetable, she’d be corn 🌽 raised in the Midwest, she’s ubiquitous around the farm, adaptable, outstanding in her field, and damn sweet.
Off-farm you can catch Rachael in her prodigious garden or at the playground with her “mini-me” Stella 💗
Meet Julia!
This summer is Julia’s third year at Full Cellar. She came to us through as an intern, and was an instant natural. Her intensity keeps us energized and we are never without an amazing playlist to fit any mood when she is around.
Born: Seattle
Favorite farm gear: Her . Julia loves her feet and her feet love these boots! They are durable and remarkably comfortable. So much so that Julia wears them everywhere she goes year round.
Favorite farm task: Setting up irrigation at the beginning of the season. As long as it’s not drip tape.🤪
If she was a vegetable Julia would be a garlic scape. Versatile, fun, and a reminder to celebrate the start of summer ☀️ The best things in life are a little kooky.
When not on the farm (or in her bed) you can find Julia on the trail with her incredibly sweet stud of a dog, Roux.
Thought we would take the time to reintroduce ourselves this week.
Welcome Em!
Em just started at Full Cellar this spring and she brings such positive vibes and experience learned at .
Born: Seattle - Duwamish land
Favorite farm gear: Knee pads! But not the usual ones like you wore to roller skate as a kid, but real amazing carhartt ones. We love this idea! See second picture of said knee pads.
If you were a vegetable what one would you be: Em aspires to be a beet; nutrient dense, solid, beautiful, high in iron, and hardy.
Favorite farm task: Harvesting tomatoes! Especially the cherries because it is satisfying to pop them off the vine.
When not on the farm you can find Em: Watching reality tv or cooking delicious farm fresh veggies for her friends.
Click right to travel back in time!
Google Earth enticed us today to time travel, looking at how much change our farm has experienced just in the past 20 years: from the somewhat messy but still orderly rows of vegetables we have today, to the tree nursery it was. I wish we could see photos of what it looked like 100 years ago, but we will just have to imagine it back.
Got 2,000 little snap pea plants in the ground today (and the rain help off, yaay!). Also Oregon grape is blooming. Spring is coming!!
and I are here slinging shares at the Share Fair TODAY, March 3, from 10 to 1! Come on down and enter our FREE raffle for a tote bag full of veggies or $50 off a membership!
Thank you for coming along with us this week and learning more about our farm and CSA program. We hope to have the privilege of feeding you and your family this summer.
Hopefully we will see you TOMORROW (March 3) for the PNWCSA CSA Share Fair.
As always you can purchase a share on our website ([email protected]).
When you join our CSA, our farm is your farm!
We love having members out to the farm, and host a few events each summer. One of the benefits to eating locally is the opportunity to see where your food grows, and to meet the people growing it!
This year we have several farm events in the works:
- June: Farm Open House. Come tour the farm and see your veggies growing!
- August: Potato Dig! Help us dig potatoes and celebrate the harvest with a potato potluck.
-October: Harvest Festival. Spend an afternoon picking pumpkins, doing crafts, and picnicking to celebrate the end of the main growing season.
Want to join us? Sign up here https://www.fullcellarfarmoregon.com/, or come meet us in person at the PNWCSA Share Fair https://www.pnwcsa.org/all-events/csasharefair this Sunday, March 3, from 10 to 1 at The Redd (831 SE Salmon)!
We're Certified Organic and Salmon Safe! We care about our workers, our soil, our watershed, and our members. We hold ourselves to high standards for sustainability and care for our community (human and non-human alike). We took the step of becoming certified so you can know at a glance what our values are.
Come meet us at the PNWCSA Share Fair,https://www.pnwcsa.org/all-events/csasharefair, or find out more on our website, https://www.fullcellarfarmoregon.com/
Want fresh local vegetables delivered straight to your door?
We love seeing members at pick-up, but realize this model can be limiting for busy schedules. In order to make our CSA share more accessible this year we are offering home delivery!
You can even split a delivery site (and the fee) with a friend or neighbor! If you need help finding someone close by to share delivery with, stop by our booth at the Pacific NW CSA Coalition Share Fair https://www.pnwcsa.org/all-events/csasharefair this Sunday and add your name to our matchmaking board.
Anyone paying with SNAP or a scholarship qualifies for FREE DELIVERY!
More info on our website, https://www.fullcellarfarmoregon.com/
CSA is community supported agriculture. You commit to supporting us by putting down a good faith deposit, which we then invest into growing your food! In return, you get 22 weeks of field fresh vegetables starting June through October.
For about $36 per week you will receive a tote full of household staples as well as delicious varieties that you cannot find in grocery stores. Organic, seasonal, fresh vegetables, grown by your neighbors in harmony with our local ecosystems, who could ask for more?!
Want to learn more? Check out our website, https://www.fullcellarfarmoregon.com/, or join us on Sunday at the CSA Share Fair (https://www.pnwcsa.org/all-events/csasharefair)!
Sometimes you just have to get away…and talk about farm planning in a beautiful place with an amazing group of people. I’m so grateful to work with these smart, passionate, and fun humans. It was a perfect couple of days for farm dreams and beach runs! Thanks also to for hosting us at their farm for tour and tea. We have an amazing community.
Sunny day projects! Transplanting in one of our high tunnels and liming the fields. These two badasses spread over 2,000 lbs of lime by hand today. 💕 Not pictured: hosting an engaged and inquisitive class from the organic farming program. It was a good day to be a farmer!
Julia and I went over to yesterday to harvest carrots with their crew. It was the most perfect February day, and I’m psyched to have some of their orange beauties in our shares this coming week!
Calling all veggie lovers in east Multnomah County! This hardworking, fun-loving crew wants to grow food for you thus summer. If you value getting your food from a sustainably minded, worker-centered farm, then check us out! Learn more on our website, https://www.fullcellarfarmoregon.com/.
28765 SE Stone Road
Boring, OR
97009
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Summer vibes…
It’s tomato time!!
I guess it’s irrigation season! This spring has been pretty sunny and dry, which helps us prepare fields for planting but also means we can’t always wait for rain to water in all those little plants. Some years we haven’t had to start irrigating until May (and in 2019 I think it was June!) but this year we’re making our own April showers.
It wasn’t the most ideal day for pulling plastic on our new caterpillar tunnel, but we got it done with minimal drama. Soon we’ll be seeding 4 more beds of greens for early spring!
We’re here at @oregoncityfarmersmarket with sooo many summer goodies including #tomatoes #summersquash #cucumbers #basil #eggplant and did I mention tomatoes?! Come see us before 2 pm!
Oh, March. I sure hope you go out like a lamb.
Snow shadows 💕
Blustery day for cauliflower harvest! Cheers to all the farmers (& farm workers) out there in this wacky weather. I hope you’re staying safe!!
Guess it was high time I mowed. 😂
Apparently this is our year for doing many small projects that make the farm a little better while waiting for it to stop raining. Bonus: This sun shade will also keep wind and rain out of our wash station. 🌈☔️🥬
Putting the hoops up is always the most fun part of tunnel construction! Hoping the rain will hold off as we put this @farmersfriendllc tunnel in its third (and hopefully last) spot.
The Easter bunny left these cuties in one of our high tunnels. I know they’re probably future lettuce eaters, but for now they’re 😍.
Planting in the hail. What a week.
I saw a drip tape winder on a wheelbarrow bottom near @goodrainfarm last year and filed it away as a future project. This week Amy took my very vague instructions and ran with it! Can’t wait to try this baby out in the field!
@moramorafarm @prairieoakfarm This one’s for you! It works great, but only holds enough compost for one bed at a time so that’s kind of a pain.
Obviously my multitasking skills could use help. 😂 Impressionistic video of me sowing winter covercrop seed on this beautiful fall day!
Nom nom nom... Slug lettuce feast with bonus quail voiceover.
Watering in the second (and final) planting of sweet corn. We use drip irrigation on most of our farm, but overhead sprinklers make it quick and easy to water in newly planted beds. And they give me such a feeling of peace. 💦
Tiny native bees love dandelions, and so do I! It was a good spring day all around. Bonus soundtrack: post pounding for pea trellising.
Moved the cucumber plants off the heat mats today and discovered a pretty intense ant colony. Guess they like the 75 degree nights too!
