Wildwood Gardens

08/23/2024

Tomatoes from the Summer 2024 garden. It is producing abundantly for its fourth season.

08/22/2024

Spring Greens; Spinach, Arugula, Snow Peas, Turnips, and Radish in the newly established Wildwood Gardens. 🥬 Brighton, MI. May 2020

08/22/2024

Urban Farming Inspiration: How Tokyo's Farms have Survived for Centuries. Can you imagine that some of these farms are over 400 years old?

In the world's biggest concrete jungle, over a thousand small farms continue to grow crops protected by a powerful ally: the city itself.

08/12/2024

Wildwood Gardens Spring 2023 Greens

08/12/2024

Wildwood Gardens First Plantings back in Spring of 2020.

07/07/2024

A clip from last season (2023). The transition of going from market gardening to homesteading and urban farm research is a long slow process.

03/31/2024

Winter hibernation is over! Big changes for 2024 Wildwood Gardens . We are transitioning away from CSA and farm/retail markets to focus on building up the farms resources and systems. After three years of CSA and market gardening we are excited to step into a different role as urban farmers. Research, education, and agritech will be our focus for the foreseeable future. We have been grateful to share our garden with so many folks through CSA, but look forward to sharing it in a greater capacity through our future endeavors. There is more big news that we will share later on...stay tuned.

02/21/2024

08/05/2023

Some of my favorite tools at Wildwood Gardens.

07/11/2023

Wildwood Gardens Wildwood Gardens has been influenced by Sam Thayer for more than a decade. Forgers harvest and Natures Garden books were God sent when I was first learning about wild edibles. His new book is the hottest thing to come off the press in recent times. Please check it out at

Sam Thayer's Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America. Written by North America’s leading authority on edible wild plants, who has eaten every species covered. Contains 1,700 clear color photos & 625 range maps. Shows 679 edible species (320 more than the Peterson Gui...

07/11/2023

Urban farming is not easy! Wildwood Gardens this year has been especially tuff with the wacky weather. Here's to hoping for a good summer and fall season! Still three more months of summer and a couple fall months of harvest left. Spring was not too bad, but still lots left to be desired with crop selection, timing, and pest management. Travis Stephen Childs

06/13/2023

Microgreens when the groundhogs eat all the lettuce!

06/09/2023

Snapper turtle in Michigan. This turtle was the biggest I have ever seen. And oldie for sure. Come July 1st turtle hunting season begins. Turtle soup anyone?

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06/09/2023

Horseweed ancient food from the Americas before the last ice age. This is a sacred traditional food to the original people's.

06/04/2023

Flowers are blooming! All that hard work from last season is starting to show. These flowers are at our auxiliary location in Whitmore Lake, MI. At the Little Fish Design Studio.

06/01/2023

The patterns of nature are exciting! Wildwood Gardens

05/30/2023

Pokeweed shoots. Make sure to boil them long enough to get the bad juju out. Then they eat excellently. People down south know about this green, but up here in the north it's misunderstood. Wildwood Gardens www.wildwoodgardenscsa.com

05/23/2023

To help with ID, harvest and use, here is the Dame's Rocket illustrated page from my book Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook by Dina Falconi; illustrated by Wendy Hollender. More about the book on my site here: www.ForagingAndFeasting.com

05/22/2023

Spring wild flowers on the border

05/21/2023

Just pulled up a garbage bag full of poison ivy out of the woods. Let's hope I don't get a rash. I wore gloves long sleeve shirt and was careful to not let it touch my skin.

05/18/2023

Wild Burdock Root at Wildwood Gardens soon to be pickled and dyed pink with beet root.

05/16/2023

The Spring Greens are great this time of year! The salad mix hasn't even started yet! These are more of the cooking style greens: spinach, kale, Swiss chard, arugula, purple mustard.

https://www.wildwoodgardenscsa.com/2021-roots-report

05/04/2023

Week 2 Spring CSA Menu is up on the website: https://www.wildwoodgardenscsa.com/2021-roots-report

Produce is now being packed in reusable waxed cardboard boxes!

04/26/2023

https://www.wildwoodgardenscsa.com/2021-roots-report

Wildwood Gardens website has been updated!!! CSA Members choose 6 items from the list and get a surprise bonus item added too! There are still two more spots open for anyone who wants fresh local produce in the Brighton, MI area.

Spring CSA Harvest List Week 1:

Kale Greens and Raab (stems and flowers like broccoli)
Collards Greens
Red Swiss Chard
Asian Greens (stems and flowers are edible)
Spinach
Dandelion Greens
Wild Broccoli Raab
Hosta Shoots (yes they are edible!)
Dock Greens (sour)
Spicy Purple Mustard Greens

Wild Leeks (aka ramps)
Green Onions
Walking Onions
Wild Green Onion (more like chives)
Garlic Bulbs (storage crop some are sprouting which is great to still eat)
Garlic Greens
Chives

Lovage (like parsley, but stronger)
Celery Leaf (like parsley, but stronger)
Sage
Mints (whatever type is most available)
Catmint (tea herb)
Motherwort (tea herb)

04/22/2023

Wildwood Gardens Spring CSA is starting up this week! There is still a last minute chance for 3 more members to join! 10 weeks of fresh locally grown veggies, herbs, and flowers for $300. Pickup your produce in Brighton, MI at our Farmstand.

Checkout https://www.wildwoodgardenscsa.com/csa/p/spring-garden-produce-boxes for more info or email [email protected] to inquire.

04/20/2023

A Few more spots left in the Spring CSA. Visit www.wildwoodgardenscsa.com to check it out! Harvesting begins next week!!!

04/15/2023

Soil fertility at Wildwood Gardens.

04/14/2023

I will be releasing a video series on YouTube soon(and www.wildwoodgardenscsa.com), but first I need to get 1000 followers for the channel. Also there will be a 24/7 live feed. There are 500+ people following this Wildwood Gardens page. Is it possible to get 1000 people to follow on the YouTubes.... More to come soon. Stay tuned!

04/08/2023

Getting the propagation greenhouse cleaned out. Over the next week or two this thing will be completely full of plants! In the summer it will be full of tomatoes! Farm tour video coming soon. Email [email protected] if you'd like to schedule an in-person farm tour or learn more about the CSA.

www.wildwoodgardenscsa.com