Loving Roots Urban Farm

Loving Roots Urban Farm Woman-powered, small-scale, no-till, urban farm, hand-harvested beautiful greens and roots.

80 cubic yards of compost dropped and spread this weekend! It was a a miracle to witness and direct! Thank you  and new ...
11/25/2024

80 cubic yards of compost dropped and spread this weekend! It was a a miracle to witness and direct! Thank you and new friends Shelly and Don and family! Wow this community is really showing up for us! ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿ›

More to comeโ€ฆ stay tuned. ๐Ÿฆ‹โ˜€๏ธ

Turning a yard into a working farm!   Wow. My heart has maybe never been this full. The flow of life is carrying us with...
11/23/2024

Turning a yard into a working farm! Wow. My heart has maybe never been this full. The flow of life is carrying us with Her and the energy of Yes is our guiding force.

This week (on my birthday ๐Ÿฅณ) we broke ground on building a pond on our property! The pond will capture water from rain, rainwater from our house roof and the high tunnelโ€ฆ. To serve as irrigation for the farm. And lots of new wildlife for us to enjoy. We are soooo excited!

Thank you dear Divine for your love and support and thank you dear friends and heart family for sharing in this joyful dream with us. We feel you all. Please keep shining your light with us. We feel so loved.

11/06/2024

All we can do is continue to work on our innerselves and lead with Love.

Chop Wood, Carry Water. Continue to Love, Support and Nurture You and those around You.

Somehow I still believe every person on this planet and in this country is a Being of Love. No matter what they heard or believed from the TV screen.

Go out and be a light today. Try serving others from your Highest Self. Try finding compassion when someone doesnโ€™t show up the way you want them to. Try taking the higher path (of love) when someone hurts you.

And most importantly Believe in Love and Magic - itโ€™s all around you. We all have our own interpretation of those words and energy. Just keep believing.

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Meet Sandy!  is one gem of a woman. For the last two years she has come early to the farm on Wednesday mornings to wash ...
10/30/2024

Meet Sandy! is one gem of a woman. For the last two years she has come early to the farm on Wednesday mornings to wash all of the greens!!! Whether itโ€™s hot or cold, Sandy dives into these big vats of beautiful greens and makes sure every round is perfectly clean and ready to sell. Thank you soooooo much! It takes alot of trust and you are the perfect person for this job. I appreciate you. ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿฅ•๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’—

Check out the rest of the crew in the pics. Today was bittersweet - it was the final big harvest of the season for the Loving Roots online store.

Hop online (link in bio) and order some beautiful greens today! ๐Ÿฅฌ๐Ÿ’—

My sweet heroes! Thank you  and  for your dedication this weekend!!! ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿ›๐Ÿฅ•๐Ÿ˜‡Friends, we are dreaming, visioning, observing ...
10/29/2024

My sweet heroes! Thank you and for your dedication this weekend!!! ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿ›๐Ÿฅ•๐Ÿ˜‡

Friends, we are dreaming, visioning, observing and building over hereโ€ฆ our dream. Iโ€™ve been envisioning this for 7 years now. Thank you Goddess for the wind at my back, for the glow in my heart, for the heaps of community connections that appear.

I am leaning into the Yeses from the Universe. To keep dancing with my heart dream, to keep getting on my hands and knees in that soil, to keep wading thru this life dream. It feels so right. So in alignment with my purpose and for my deep desire to live in coherence with nature and all of life.

Iโ€™d be honored if you kept following me here. Or if you reach to say hi and tell me that you care. Itโ€™s the people involved that keep this dream swirling and growing.

Join me tonight at  for a fun fall evening! Iโ€™m bringing extra veggies to sell out of my truck ๐Ÿฅฌ๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿค—
10/24/2024

Join me tonight at for a fun fall evening! Iโ€™m bringing extra veggies to sell out of my truck ๐Ÿฅฌ๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿค—

Meet Mary!!  is an ultra-dedicated volunteer on the farm. Every week for 2 years she has harvested big loads of head let...
10/22/2024

Meet Mary!! is an ultra-dedicated volunteer on the farm. Every week for 2 years she has harvested big loads of head lettuce for me with gratitude. She arrives to the farm with a huge smile and jumps right in. She is a delight to be around and her joyful presence is much appreciated.

THANK YOU from the fullness of my heart. I canโ€™t say it too many times, I donโ€™t know what I would do without you. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿฅฌ๐Ÿ˜‡๐Ÿค—๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ›๐Ÿ›๐Ÿ˜˜๐Ÿ˜˜

10/17/2024

We are looking into digging/building a pond on our property to capture/hold rainwater for farm irrigation.
Does anyone have a recommendation on a company that digs ponds? Not an ornamental pond.
Thank you!

Today!!! Progress!! Beyond grateful for a super team. Thank you     .love.is.all.you.need
10/13/2024

Today!!! Progress!! Beyond grateful for a super team. Thank you .love.is.all.you.need

Most farms till their land each time they want to plant into the soil. There are many variations on tilling but it is co...
10/12/2024

Most farms till their land each time they want to plant into the soil. There are many variations on tilling but it is common to use a tractor of some sort or at least a device you can push or run off of a battery to invert the soil and grind it up (in Simple terms).

Iโ€™ve decided to take my farm to the next level to bypass all of that. After our initial tilling process to break up the grass, we started bringing in fresh leaf compost to cover the ENTIRE 1/3 acre plot!

This nutrient dense compost will allow me to plant directly into it! It will lay right on top of the existing soil and allow me to utilize a system. Iโ€™m really excited!

It is more material than I have ever worked with (180 cubic yards ๐Ÿ˜œ) so calling in friends with a tractor was necessary to move these huge loads of compost around the plot. We didnโ€™t want to drive the tractor inside the areas where beds will be formed to reduce compaction. Sooooo tmrw 12 volunteers will help me manually spread this first load onto 3 zones that will become 30 beds.

Stay tuned for updates tomorrow with the spreading crew!

Thank you all!!

Salad turnips return!! Order now thru Thursday ! LINK IN BIO
09/19/2024

Salad turnips return!! Order now thru Thursday ! LINK IN BIO

Get in on these yummy summer veggies today!Order link in bio ๐ŸฅฌItโ€™s easy to place your order online then pickup tonight (...
08/08/2024

Get in on these yummy summer veggies today!
Order link in bio ๐Ÿฅฌ
Itโ€™s easy to place your order online then pickup tonight (Thursday) 4-5p outside ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿฅฌ

08/04/2024

Searching for a handyman to convert a garage to a
wash/pack/cooler in
Edwardsville, IL. Any leads?

HEARTFELT ANNOUNCEMENT TIME! As I sit here finally warm and dry after working in torrential downpours at Loving Roots Ur...
07/16/2024

HEARTFELT ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!

As I sit here finally warm and dry after working in torrential downpours at Loving Roots Urban Farm today, I'm feeling especially grateful for this Life. And I want to share some BIG, MUCH AWAITED, DREAM-FILLED news with all of you! Thanks for listening! I hope this sparks some joy in each of you that reads this.

To sum it up... I'm on the verge of waking up to my work being
AT MY HOME!! For most of you, separating work and home is important ... something you strive for. Well, for me it is nearly the opposite.

My Beloved Dirk Hennessey and I finally found and purchased our dream home on 10 acres of land in Illinois - VERY NEAR St Louis! We searched, strategized, dreamed about and strived for this for years! And the good old saying "Patience is a Virtue" was proven true again. WE FOUND IT!! Actually, I feel it found us..... :).

For the last 5 years, I have driven from Shaw to Ferguson everyday to run a delicate little lettuce farm.... and it served me well for SO long! What a blessing the land at EarthDance Organic Farm School has been - a true gem and gift - where I started my business and thrived. Being in community there has been so wholesome and supportive and truly joyful. THANK YOU!

But, now I get to create the farm of my dreams on my own land!! Early farm walks with coffee (with Dirk Hennessey), beds and beds of bright beautiful greens and flowers and veg glistening outside our windows, harvesting in the early light, walking to work :), watching the magic take place right in front of me - the bucolic dream I've envisioned for SO long! The time is now.

As we create this farmstead together, I hope to share updates with you all along the way.... a grassy yard will transition to a farm operation (still called Loving Roots Urban Farm) over the next number of months while I continue to operate at Earthdance... with the plan to begin planting my first seeds "at home" March 2025.

Thank you God, Goddess, friends, family, mentors and everyone involved in this lengthy process. Knowing many of you might be a part of the process of farm creation in the coming months is truly exciting - we need tons of help! Visions, designs, construction, land prep, laborers, supporters, builders, etc.... MANIFESTATION.

Thank you, HOME.

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233 S. Dade Avenue
Ferguson, MO
63135

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https://lovingrootsurbanfarm.com/

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