Loving Roots Urban Farm

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Loving Roots Urban Farm

Woman-powered, small-scale, no-till, urban farm, hand-harvested beautiful greens and roots.
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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 doesn’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 - it’s all around you. We all have our own interpretation of those words and energy. Just keep believing.

❤️

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 it’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. 🥰🥕💗💗💗💗

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! 🥬💗

10/29/2024

My sweet heroes! Thank you and for your dedication this weekend!!! 🥰🐛🥕😇

Friends, we are dreaming, visioning, observing and building over here… our dream. I’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.

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

10/24/2024

Join me tonight at for a fun fall evening! I’m bringing extra veggies to sell out of my truck 🥬💗🤗

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 can’t say it too many times, I don’t know what I would do without you. 😍🥬😇🤗🙏🐛🐛😘😘

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!

10/13/2024

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

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).

I’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. I’m really excited!

It is more material than I have ever worked with (180 cubic yards 😜) so calling in friends with a tractor was necessary to move these huge loads of compost around the plot. We didn’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!!

09/19/2024

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

08/08/2024

Get in on these yummy summer veggies today!
Order link in bio 🥬
It’s easy to place your order online then pickup tonight (Thursday) 4-5p outside 🌈💗🥬

08/04/2024

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

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.

07/11/2024

Craving some beautiful greens for your salad table tonight? Order now until noon today for pick up tonight! Link in bio

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07/09/2024

Farming greens in July! Upon arriving to the farm today, it dawned on me that the best and ‘worst’ part of my ‘job’ is that I never know what to expect!! And that’s what keeps me going 💕🥰🌞🫶☔️🌈🌦️🦄💧⛈️

Don’t miss out on best greens 🥬

Place an order every Wednesday between 3pm and Thursday 12pm for pickup outside Thursday 4-6p ☀️☀️😍😍🤗

ORDER LINK IN BIO 🌈🌈💗

Gratitude to my volunteers❤️

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09/21/2023

Look at these babes! The head lettuce is so sweet and vibrant right now! All the veggies love this weather and want to get in your belly now! 💕💕🥬

Order time is now thru Thursday ! Then pickup Thursday 4-6p outside .

I’ll be there in my cute farm truck to greet you 🥬🥕❣️👩‍🌾

Thank you for your help

Jeaneen
Beth S

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09/14/2023

Baby look at this salad! Order now or stop by my farm truck today between 4-6pm to grab this and other beautiful veggies! ❣️🥬🧚‍♀️

09/07/2023

Get your hyper local super fresh grown with love GREENS and roots now!! Order now thru Thursday at NOON. Pickup Thursday 4-6p outside 🥬🌈❤️

ORDER LINK IN BIO🥕❤️😍

08/16/2023

Looking for fresh, just harvested produce to fill your summer table? Time to order now until Thursday at Noon.

https://lovingrootsurbanfarm.square.site/

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233 S. Dade Avenue
Ferguson, MO
63135

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https://lovingrootsurbanfarm.square.site/, https://lovingrootsurbanfarm.com/

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Videos

Work Day Rockin’ It!

Here’s some footage from our work day today! Beautiful soil, bright sunshine! More videos to follow.... #farmlife #regenerativefarming #stlouis #notill #urbanfarming #blessed #smallscale

Power Forking! 👩‍🌾👩‍🌾👩‍🌾

Here’s some footage from our work day today! Beautiful soil, bright sunshine! More videos to follow.... #farmlife #regenerativefarming #stlouis #notill #urbanfarming #blessed #smallscale

Work Day Crew March 7, 2020

Here’s some footage from our work day today! Beautiful soil, bright sunshine! More videos to follow.... #farmlife #regenerativefarming #stlouis #notill #urbanfarming #blessed #smallscale

Broadforking the beds

Here’s some footage from our work day today! Beautiful soil, bright sunshine! More videos to follow.... #farmlife #regenerativefarming #stlouis #notill #urbanfarming #blessed #smallscale

Seed starting take one! 👩‍🌾👩‍🌾👩‍🌾

Chard and Kale babies find their home for the next 5 weeks before I plant them in the compost mulch bed system i created in the field. #humblefarmer #iamreadytogetdirty #marketgardening