Sweet Tooth Farm

04/08/2024

We started this farm to help fill a gap. To get more fresh food to our community. We’re still doing that ! (don’t forget to sign up for community harvest days this summer!)

Amid losing land - urban prices and zoning/municipal headaches - we are trying something new this year.

We’re making compost. And offering a new service to fill the gap in Des Moines. There currently is not comprehensive or existing infrastructure in our city for food waste/kitchen scrap collection for compost. What is made available for residents is made from yard waste. We wanted another choice. So we’re building it.

Sign up to compost with us! Pick the price and frequency that works for you. We provide the bin, and we pull up to get your scraps! Get first access to the compost we produce as a subscriber.

And! If you sign up to any tier before Earth Day Jamie at .dsm will give you 10% off your purchase when you show her your receipt during Earth Week!

Are you a restaurant/food service provider ?? Hit me up let’s chat!

Let’s make some treasure out of your trash. Sign up at sweettoothfarm.net

02/23/2024

just about that time 🌱

very pumped to fill fridges with fresh produce again this year

farm to table for the rest of us - not just those who can afford it

will be figuring out work/harvest times soon! there will be weekly chances to come out and get your hands dirty and take some veg home yourself -

stay tuned 🍅

02/13/2024

LGBTQ Iowans have the power, the knowledge, and the joy to create a future we can all thrive in.

Proud to be led by and cause a ruckus for my trans community.

I love you so dearly, we won’t let them erase you.

To all my white and cis followers - now is the time to put your body and your voice on the line. Cancel your plans and get to events to show your support. It matters.

02/08/2024

🚨 call to action 🚨

My kids started school in 2020, the same year that started the community school coordinator program. So I don’t know DMPS without them.

I am furious that and have financially mismanaged this program so badly. The community school coordinators are doing the most important work outside of academics at DMPS. The numbers don’t lie!

I have seen CSCs be the reason a child has clean clothes, be the reason they have access to food at home, have opportunities to attend extracurriculars and community programs - they have breathed life into our schools.

Moulton has the highest participation of extracurriculars in the entire district, and that achievement sits solely on the shoulders of our CSC Leah.

how dare you ask our CSCs to increase their workload, for a $15,000 pay cut. This is shameful. You are directly harming the students and families who need CSCs the most.

🚨We need to flood the inboxes of the DMPS school board, Dr. Ian Roberts, Shelly Bosovich, Jake Troja, and Demarco Lowery. 🚨 All of their contact information is available on the last slide! I know I will be emailing a few times a day starting now!

We can’t let this happen. We won’t let this happen.
Please share with your networks and spread the word!!

02/08/2024

🚨 call to action 🚨

My kids started school in 2020, the same year that started the community school coordinator program. So I don’t know DMPS without them.

I am furious that and have financially mismanaged this program so badly. The community school coordinators are doing the most important work outside of academics at DMPS. The numbers don’t lie!

I have seen CSCs be the reason a child has clean clothes, be the reason they have access to food at home, have opportunities to attend extracurriculars and community programs - they have breathed life into our schools.

Moulton has the highest participation of extracurriculars in the entire district, and that achievement sits solely on the shoulders of our CSC Leah.

how dare you ask our CSCs to increase their workload, for a $15,000 pay cut. This is shameful. You are directly harming the students and families who need CSCs the most.

🚨We need to flood the inboxes of the DMPS school board, Dr. Ian Roberts, Shelly Bosovich, Jake Troja, and Demarco Lowery. 🚨 All of their contact information is available on the last slide! I know I will be emailing a few times a day starting now!

We can’t let this happen. We won’t let this happen.

01/17/2024

It’s my birthday tomorrow! (tell your fav Capricorn you love them!)

And all I want is seeeeeeeds!!

We no longer sell to the public or do a CSA. All the produce we grow goes to our neighbors and to community fridges around the metro. That means that all our costs in the spring add up. We do not have any funding or grants. And believe it or not the spring will be here before you know it.

It would mean so much to get some support to start up the farm this year! If you can help us Venmo a few bucks 🫶🏼

01/10/2024

that food rescue flow 💐

12/30/2023

finally getting the tunnel winterized

really have had no motivation as we aren’t selling this fall — and things have just been hard lately

really happy to have found a LFPA distributor and we are all good to grow for hungry folks 2024

we are hopeful that the program will be renewed - but who knows

very grateful for this small window that we can grow food for hungry folks and not only those lovely people who can afford it

🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇨🇬

12/04/2023

the cold keeps coming

it always does

I keep trying to remember the hot sun on my skin, the laughter of my children;

for me it will come again

I’m consumed with thoughts about those who will never again feel it on this earth

the mothers who only have their children’s blood and screams of agony to remember

looking at seed catalogs, thinking of spring - thinking of warm sun - of olive trees and laughter in Palestine. I believe in that future.

11/21/2023

BIG NEWS IN THE HIVE!!!! Thrilled to announce that we are taking the reins of the Food Rescue Program from EGDM 🌍✨We’re embracing this opportunity to strengthen connections and eliminate food waste. Join us in fostering sustainability and providing essential needs! 🤍🐝

The next few months will be dicey and wonderful!!!! We can’t wait. 🚛🚚

11/12/2023

forever finding chunks of concrete and rebar when I’m growing in the city

got the garlic in

got the lots cleaned up

hibernation and organizing with my friends - dreaming up a better world and using my hands and voice to build it are the only things on my agenda until spring 💔

11/07/2023

so much happening

here and over there

heartbreak after heartbreak

and steady as ever - the shorter days, the crisp air - does not care

even when the world is falling apart we gotta clean up to start fresh when the ice thaws

💔🇵🇸

11/03/2023

What is there even left to say? What a new fresh horror, to watch a genocide happen from our phones streamed into our living rooms. And the creeping terror that a lot of you just don’t care at all.

What I know to be true:

Palestine was never Britain’s to give away. It is and has been a colonized territory. The Palestinian people have faced violent displacement for over 75 years. Those who have survived and persevered are trapped in militarized camps; they must live under a different set of laws, they must get different special licenses based on their race, they must face military checkpoints to travel even 1 mile. There is unimaginable suffering in Palestine and has been for generations.

If your holy text says you get to rule a place, this does not mean you can ethically cleanse and steal the land from the people already living there. This is no one’s right.

The only way forward is for EVERY person to have equal rights, equal freedom of movement, equal justice, an equal vote, equal opportunity, and self determination.

And for the refugees to get their homes back. Homes that still exist. Homes they still have the deeds to. Homes they still have the keys to. Can you imagine that? Someone (with the military supporting them) comes and tells you one day that your house is actually theirs? And you must leave or be shot? That is the reality of Palestinians. This is happening as you read my post in the West Bank.

From the River to the Sea means that
Jewish people and Palestinian people can live together in peace. One land. One country. No apartheid. For gods sake we kidnapped African people that we enslaved for hundreds of years!!! And we live together today!!! So don’t tell me that it’s not possible.

Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

10/09/2023

wow what a season.

It felt wrong to be going slower. I felt guilty to rest. To allow myself quiet and space.

I was able to do those things with the LFPA! We got to fill fridges and get reimbursed for the food we put in. Truly my idea of heaven. We didn’t have to hustle so hard this year. It was a gift.

With our smaller scale after loosing our big plots, we are figuring out how to make this all work.

I’m really really happy to say that even on a slow year we were able to bring just under 8,000lbs of produce to community fridges and neighbors. Even with heavy deer pressure and not getting one big garden in until early July!! One of the main reasons I was able to do that this year was and - I couldn’t have done the season without you both. And for all the folks who showed up week after week to help harvest and distribute. And Tito’s DUH! ❤️

Looking forward to a winter of existential slumber - and happily planning for spring 🌻 I want to double the number of #’s next year fed to hungry folks.

08/28/2023

tomato town is thriving

as much as we have lost - it is a joy and a privilege to be able to grow food for folks that are hungry, not just those who can afford it

a gift of time - (really truly no offense guys lol) being *on* all the time with a screen in my face is awful - terrible - soul sucking

but it’s 2023 you gotta do it - unless there is another way

we found another way

my absence is only because I’m reading / playing / thinking / lost in my heart / lost in the woods / helping / roaming / planning / living

love ya

08/17/2023

Vegetable Academy is this Saturday! 🍅

Join and at The Supply Hive Community Garden at 3:00pm on August 19th. Free and open to the public. No registration is needed. All the details are in the 🔗 in our bi0.

We’ll sing, move, play, taste, explore, touch, and learn about tomatoes this month.

Everyone is welcome. See you in the garden! ❤️

08/07/2023

2 days on the river
2 days of quiet beauty
2 days of laughter
2 days I won’t forget and
2 days that I can’t wait to do again

🏕️🛶✨

3 nights of rain not required next time 🤞🏼

08/01/2023

This day still feels like a dream. We are so grateful to the Love, Tito's program for all of the support and help. Check out these before and after shots! Now the real work starts on this lot! We can't wait to build on the momentum and continue to beautify and restore this space as the years go on.

07/12/2023

Vegetable Academy is this Saturday! 🥒

Join & crew and at The Supply Hive Community Garden at 3:00pm on July 15th. Free and open to the public. No registration is needed.

We’re hoping for cooperative weather this month. We’ll always share updates here if plans need to change.

Everyone deserves access to food, music, outdoor spaces, and community that nourish us. 💚 See you in the garden!

07/11/2023

Really really loving my prairie yard - in year 4 she is *glowing* and buzzing.

I direct seeded in the fall - but did y’all know there is a place to get these plants locally?!

is selling now and will be in the near future. Go follow them and let’s kill more grass 🤩

07/05/2023

Been a little absent in this space lately, but more present irl!

We are in the thick of it. The days when you feel like you might be pulled apart in every direction of chore that needs to be done. But we are rolling with it, and trying to accept help and support more these days.

We are super grateful to the funding - allowing us to grow 100% for community fridges and our neighbors. I don’t always have great things to say about the Government ™️ but purchasing food from local producers to distribute to those in need is a great program.

Come through one of these Wednesdays and we can catch up, feel the soil under our feet, and get good food for ourselves and our community.

xoxo 🌱

06/29/2023

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what a glow up

06/19/2023

Hey y’all! 🌱❤️🌱

Add this to your weekly schedule. Come get a little muddy and help us get food to folks!

This will run the season! So if you can’t make it a week here or there don’t stress. Kids welcome - but we will be using knives to harvest at different points so be prepared to keep an extra eye on ‘em!

Can’t get there by 4? No problem! Just holler at me in my DMs and I’ll let ya know where we’ll be at.

Celebrate Juneteenth today! If you’re white and have the day off - spread some of that PTO $$ to a Black led organization. .co

06/19/2023

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/2023/06/19/river-bend-community-garden-will-stock-des-moines-community-fridges-titos-vodka/70327267007/

❤️🌱❤️

All of the produce in the garden will go straight from the ground to stocking the shelves of the more than 18 community fridges across Polk County.

06/17/2023

Friends, we are super bummed, but with incoming thunderstorms this afternoon, we are cancelling Vegetable Academy for today (June 17th). The garden won’t be a safe place to play with lightning on the way. Stay safe inside and enjoy these recipes featuring June’s veggie: carrots.

We’ll see you again in the garden next month on July 15th.

🥕🍽️ TO EAT: Delicious Morning Glory cookies from

🥕🎵TO PLAY: A carrot-inspired twist on Pat-a-cake. We highly recommend pretending to slather frosting on your tiny sweet cake before devouring.

and

06/14/2023

Vegetable Academy is this Saturday! 🥕

Join and at The Supply Hive Community Garden at 3:00pm on June 17th. Free and open to the public. No registration needed. All the details are linked in our profile.

Everyone deserves access to the food, music, outdoor spaces, and community that nourish us. 🧡

06/03/2023

rolling right into summer —

it’s a lot quieter and slower around here this year! and it’s been quite magical although I miss so many of you dearly. it is a gift I’m not taking for granted, this slowness, this unwinding of the frantic hustling and pressure.

I’m in a season of abundance, on so many levels, and I’m trying to give myself permission to accept it and enjoy it.

Oh and if you’re transphobic you’re a fugly loser. Unfollow me. Argue with someone else. Happy Pride y’all 😘🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

05/26/2023

more friends showing up to the party 😍

05/23/2023

wow wow wow ✨🌱

life’s sweetest gift - doing what you love with people you love -

feeling so supported and so wonderful to be able to bring all the veg to the fridge and do it not burning myself to the ground with exhaustion and stress

things are looking great around here - (aka squash vine borer and cucumber beetles haven’t arrived in full force yet 🤣) how are your gardens friends?