Tabitha Farm Urban Homestead & Nursery

Tabitha Farm Urban Homestead & Nursery Community food forest, family farm, and greenhouse situated on the south side of downtown Kalamazoo.

Located on 2 acres of land on the South side of downtown Kalamazoo, Tabitha Farm & Community Garden supports a Community Garden open to anyone in the neighborhood, a fruit orchard, egg laying chickens, and ducks, a huge compost operation to feed and mend the city dirt it lives on, a play area and basketbell court for neighborhood kids, and lots of greens space.

12/28/2024
12/01/2024

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My neighbors at the Kalamazoo Farmer's market! I love these folks!
11/18/2024

My neighbors at the Kalamazoo Farmer's market! I love these folks!

10/30/2024
This is tomorrow!
10/28/2024

This is tomorrow!

Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to learn from amazing Kalamazoo homesteaders tabithafarm! They are preparing to build their second geodesic dome greenhouse and are allowing interested folks to come and help them build and see learn how to grow plants in a small greenhouse setting!

Register at edisonneighborhood.com or follow the QR code in the picture!

We are building a second dome!
10/14/2024

We are building a second dome!

Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to learn from amazing Kalamazoo homesteaders tabithafarm! They are preparing to build their second geodesic dome greenhouse and are allowing interested folks to come and help them build and see learn how to grow plants in a small greenhouse setting!

Register at edisonneighborhood.com or follow the QR code in the picture!

My friend Sarah owns a nursery in North Carolina. They have been delivering hurricane relief. Consider donating to the...
10/12/2024

My friend Sarah owns a nursery in North Carolina. They have been delivering hurricane relief. Consider donating to them.

This is next week. It is the conclusion in series of urban farm to table dinners held at my friend Remi Harrington's C...
09/12/2024

This is next week. It is the conclusion in series of urban farm to table dinners held at my friend Remi Harrington's Community Gardens in the Edison Neighborhood. Please come if you can!

09/04/2024
09/04/2024

My baby boy is blacksmithing in this video!

I learned something new today. "Corn Sweat". Yet another reason why millions of acres of mono crop are bad for the env...
08/29/2024

I learned something new today. "Corn Sweat". Yet another reason why millions of acres of mono crop are bad for the environment and us!

CORN SWEAT: You can see how much higher dew point values are in the Corn Belt and Great Lakes Region. It's because mature corn is releasing up to 4,000 gallons of water a day in to the air per acre. In Illinois alone, that's the equivalent of over 72,000 Olympic size swimming pools of water every day!

All that added humidity stresses our bodies, preventing us from sweating and cooling off as efficiently in dry air. If you must work or be outside this week, take frequent breaks and try and avoid the peak heating of the day in the afternoon. Check on your neighbors who might be more susceptible to the heat as well.

Come and join me this weekend! I will be selling plants and teaching a class!
08/26/2024

Come and join me this weekend! I will be selling plants and teaching a class!

08/16/2024

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111 Dixie Avenue
Kalamazoo, MI
49001

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(269) 443-3215

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Located on 2 acres of land on the South side of downtown Kalamazoo, Tabitha Farm & Community Food Forest supports a food forest full of edible preenials open to anyone in the neighborhood, a fruit orchard, egg laying chickens, goats, a compost operation to feed and mend the city dirt it lives on, a play area for neighborhood kids, and lots of greens space. We prectise permaculture, where we try to grow food and flowers symbionically with the ecology around us.

Why are we named Tabitha Farm? 51 years ago there was a girl born named Tabitha. She lived her life with great exuberance, had a great attitude even though she was constantly ridiculded because she had Down Syndrome, which was made worse when she lost all of her hair due to Chemotherapy because she had Lukemia. She was my sister. Growing up with her, I learned deep love, exceptance, and diversity, which are all values that I practice everyday with the Homestead. She was born in Battle Creek, but raised in Kalamazoo. She had many close friends in Kalamazoo. Unfortunatly, we moved to Massachusetts in 1983 so she could get futher treatment at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Even though she was in ongoing chemotherapy she ran in the Special Olympics and won two golds and a silver. She was so intellegent, so authentic, a spitfire, and a wonderful playmate. Shortly after moving to Massachusetts Tabitha passed away. She always explained to our mom that she missed Kalamazoo, and wanted to return. Tabitha Farm has been named in her honor. Our hope is that Tabitha Farm will be here for a long time, enriching the southside of Kalamazoo by nurturing the soil, and bringing love and light to our neighborhood.