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