Wild Field Urban Farm

10/20/2024

Holding onto those final garden harvests? Join us tomorrow at for Erie’s second fermentation festival! I’ll be sharing how to make your own hot sauce, kombucha, and pickled veggies like green tomatoes with garlic! Also featured are community experts with mushroom ferments, vinegar, florals, and sourdough bread. Please bring along a jar, cutting board, and knife if you’d like to take home a jar of fermented veggies and all your veggies are welcome too! We have cabbage and peppers to share for as long as they last. Come anytime between 6 and 8 for funky foods and fun! .and.honey.erie

10/05/2024

Fermentation festival returns! Like last year, is hosting this celebration of all things fermented with a community space to learn, share, and trade cultures, recipes, and skills. Thanks to friends at , .and.honey.erie , , and more (if you want to lead a workshop or demo, there’s room and a place to sign up on Grounded’s website!). We’ll have sourdough bread, floral ferments, mushroom ferments, kombucha, and hot sauce all covered as well as general veg pickling! The festival is a mix of presentations, shared information, place to bring your own produce and put it in a jar, and in true fermented fashion, a surprise of all that is possible in the right environment!

09/23/2024

Only two more Monday markets of the season! Today and next week. .nn Little Italy Farmers Market. 331 west 18th st. Lots of other events and opportunities in October, sign up for our farm newsletter to stay updated. At the website link in bio. It’s a beautiful time of year to be a farmer 🍄‍🟫

08/12/2024

Heirloom tomatoes. Some of y’all have been waiting all year for these. Little Italy Farmers Market TODAY, Monday, from 3-6pm. 331 west 18th st. Coordinated by .nn We’ll have aronia (chokeberry) berries too!

And other scenes from the farm in August. Neighbors and friends. Friendly hornworms. Artichoke flower. Peach and blackberry crisp. The first pepper from a seed shared by a friend years ago

07/28/2024

The intentions, the seeds, the tending, the harvest season coming to fruition.

Every year we hope will be an okra year. The plants are over 5 feet tall in the new greenhouse.

The cargo bike trailer is pulling its weight. And then some. Made by the wonderful Bikes At Work in Iowa.

I planted 5 paw paw seeds in spring of 2017 when I lived in a little apartment in little Italy. Two sprouted months later after I moved to 7th St. The two trees are now 7 years old and bearing fruit for the first time 💚 I’ve never stayed in one place so long, and it’s amazing to see what can take root and slowly grow and grow until fully flourishing.

First slicing tomato on bread from .and.honey.erie

Thinking about a hot sauce CSA for next year. Is anyone into that??

We really need rain. 🙏

06/05/2024

Honored to grow flowers for Emmaus Soup Kitchen!

06/03/2024

It’s flower season here, with the first flower csa shares going out on Friday as we’re welcoming friends back to the farm, human and floral. Noticing when plants bloom and fruit and even die is a big part of each year and season. Even when these markers are earlier than usual, when weather and rain and the future feel uncertain, the reliability of these flowers and their temporary beauty as they attract pollinators and set seed is worth celebrating over and over again.

05/24/2024

04/26/2024

We made it through the frost and every leaf is sparkling ✨

03/02/2024

Sowing seeds, especially this year, feels like an act of hope and resistance and determination to hold onto what is possible even during cold days well below freezing and surrounded by collective grief and exhaustion. The first ones we start are lisianthus and eucalyptus, followed by many tiny herb seeds including za’atar, oregano, rosemary, lavender, chamomile, lemon bergamot, summer thyme. Veggie-wise, we’ve also gently placed the hard seeds of artichoke, onion, and chili peppers into our favorite seed starting mix from .soil and leafy greens like endive, lettuce, kale, and cilantro will follow this week. Peas in the ground too, as it thaws. And the garlic is poking through the straw. Buds are swelling on the fruit trees.

We’ll have starter plants available in May, and sign ups for the flower csa are open now! There are 7 spots left, so if you’re thinking about fresh flowers on your table all summer and fall, now’s the time. The flowers we grow and sell financially support the farm’s community work and the food and time we joyfully share at low or no monetary cost. Now is not too early to think about Easter and Mothers Day gifts. All of you who follow wild field and support our work are a gift as well. Maybe you’re about to sow some new seeds too! Let us know how it’s going, and together we’re building new foodways and relationships of mutual aid in Erie 💚 🌱 💚 speaking of, this year, we’re offering ALL plants as pay-what-you-can, including free, to honor the now three year tradition of pay what you can farm stand where we share produce with each other and our friends and neighbors and from a place of gratitude for the abundance that is guiding the farm this year. We’re learning and growing and expanding. Sign up for the newsletter, send a message or email, attend a meeting of the Erie food policy advisory council, sign up for the flower csa, lots of ways to get involved if you’re interested 💚

11/20/2023

Locally grown and foraged handmade wreaths, waiting to grace your door or wall or even a table if you prefer the horizontal look. We dry our flowers and seed pods all summer in anticipation of wreath season. each piece is one of a kind and quantities are limited. Find us and many amazing small local makers on downtown at the Boston Store starting at 10am with a few other farm goods as well, including sunchokes and garlic. Hope to see you. We won’t be out again till plant sales in May!

10/31/2023

Preparing for the first frost and the forecasted snowflakes means a flurry of bringing potted plants inside, spreading row cover, getting those final seeds and transplants tucked in, spreading compost, cleaning seedling trays, harvesting and processing lots of produce before it begins to rot, and a host of other tasks that feel both urgent and shruggable by this point.

Daylight hours are few. There’s such a heaviness of individual and collective grief and struggle. When the sorrow and the lists of what needs doing weigh especially heavy, a gentle reminder to go out in a field and pay attention. Life and death, joy and pain, they’re all happening at once and we’re here together.

The farm’s social media will be pretty quiet for the next three months (we will have dried flowers and fresh wreaths in limited numbers for the holidays), but connecting in other ways is very welcome 💕 Beautiful work is being undertaken in Erie around food, farms, and community, and there’s space at the table 🥘

10/30/2023

Gratitude to all who helped make Erie’s Fermentation Festival happen this past Friday! We had the best time at and were amazed by the turnout!!

The reason we farm in the city and farm at all is because of the power and possibility inherent in the connections among people, plants, and shared foodways. Community naturally creates when we’re processing foods for the cold season, and a night spent chopping veggies and filling jars was the perfect reminder of that!

So thankful for such an amazing space and for all the folks who grew or brought food, fermented goods to share and swap, for help with printing handouts and setting up and cleaning up and transporting everything. We’re not aiming for self-reliance but Interdependence and mutual aid and joy!

If you couldn’t make it and would like the handouts and recipes, send me a message with your email address and I’ll gladly pass them along! Already dreaming for next year 🥬

10/25/2023

This Friday!! Fermentation Festival at Grounded Print + Paper Shop! Festivities include how to turn these beautiful chilies into hot sauce, kraut and kimchi making, kombucha, water kefir, sourdough, herb and flower ferments and more! A celebration of community and the cultures that preserve our foodways. All ages welcome, Ashley from Grounded will be sharing print making with plants and paper making too. Visit us anytime between 5-8pm and bring a jar or few. Cutting board and knife too if ya want to chop!! $10 suggested or pay what you can, funds go to support the space and cover materials, no one turned away, hope to see you there!

10/10/2023

Even as harvest season wanes, there are so many possibilities for preserving our produce to sustain us into the season of cold and hunger! Fermentation is a simple and ancient way to do this, and we’re so excited to team up with for a lil fermentation fest celebrating ! Bring your jar and your curiosity and even a culture to share if you’d like! We’ll be sampling some brand new ferments from this year and doing demos on how to make kimchi, kraut, hot sauce, and more! Plus veggie art and printmaking! All ages are welcome, hope to see ya there.

07/17/2023

Farmer’s market day! We’ll be there with the hazy harvest, with Grow and Glow urban collective and a special selection of herbs and greens to support our community health during this fiery summer 🥵 Please take care if you venture out.

334 west 18th st, 3-6pm

07/02/2023

Rainy days mean more kitchen time 🧑‍🍳 Seems like everyone is craving the arrival of summer produce—tomatoes, squash, cukes—and I hope we don’t also miss savoring the early ones like this escarole, dill, salad turnips, the first baby beets, and the last of the radishes! Topped with homemade tempeh from and a maple mustard vinaigrette with homemade fermented mustard, cherries picked down the street, and toasted pecans, this salad is a nice little farewell to spring since we won’t see some of these foods at the farm again until fall or next year!

Show up at the Little Italy Farmer’s Market tomorrow on west 18th St, 3-6pm for an amazing assortment of local fruits and vegetables! We’re sharing a table with ‘s new farm too! See ya there! We’ll have flowers, greens, sugar snap peas, lots of herbs, garlic scapes, fennel, and we’d love to see you!

06/26/2023

Market update! With the heaviest of hearts—and some heavy bins of just-picked produce—we’re not coming out to market today in the storms. See you next Monday in Little Italy for the best farmer’s market around!

and still have things for sale if you’re down to stop by either of our east side farms. Collards, turnip greens, kale, chard, lettuce, peas, herbs like dill, chamomile, lavender, mint, and tulsi, and fresh flowers. Message us if there’s something you want and we’ll see ya on west 18th st next week!