CommonWealth Urban Farms is made up of a dedicated group of people who are growing and composting on urbanized land in Oklahoma City.
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Our mission is to grow food, equip a network of urban gardeners, create local jobs, turn local waste into compost. CommonWealth's mission is to grow food, equip a network of urban gardeners, create local jobs, turn local waste into compost, and connect OKC neighbors in the process.
On Saturday, June 29th, from 11am to noon, we will host a class for the man, the myth, the legend - Travis Andrews, from Native Farming Solutions, our sister organization! He will be teaching us the basics about how to make liquid fertilizer from food waste!
Check out Native Farming Solutions and Black Sol!
No need to sign up ahead of time; $10 per adult or $15 per pair. Or volunteer on Saturday morning, and get in free! Meet us at 1016 NW 32nd at 9am for volunteering.
For Sunday, May 25th, and Monday, May 26th, Lia’s Garden is having a sale from 10 AM - 2 PM! All vegetables are half off! 🍅🌶️
🐝 To bee or not to bee? Our next garden school class is over bees native to Oklahoma and how to garden for them, taught by James Hung! We’re not pollen your leg when we say we mean bees-ness on the matter! 😤
No need to sign up ahead of time; $10 per adult or $15 per pair. Or volunteer on Saturday morning, and get in free! Meet us at 1016 NW 32nd at 9am for volunteering.
Interested in raised bed gardens? Well, romaine calm, we’ve got the class just for you this Saturday! David Nelms will be instructing us how to construct raised beds with inexpensive or reclaimed materials. We’ll learn together! Through trowel and error. 🤗
No need to sign up ahead of time; $10 per adult or $15 per pair. Or volunteer on Saturday morning, and get in free! Meet us at 1016 NW 32nd at 9am for volunteering.
Hear ye, hear ye! Season’s tweetings! Our next garden school class will be taught by Sean Washington, who will be quacking the case on how to attract birds to your garden, as well as introducing us to the identification app iNaturalist! It’s a heavy birden, but someone’s gotta’ do it. ✊🏻😔
For the Love of Earth is a 2 day event focusing on environmental stewardship, sustainability skills, and earth-based spiritual practice.
This is a family-friendly all ages event that gets us outside and connected in community as we explore ways to play, ground down, work together, heal and dream awake a more beautiful world for all.
Everyone is encouraged to come the full two days and limited camping spaces are available.
The workshop lineup has been thoughtfully curated and so many talented facilitators and community leaders will be coming together to create a full weekend of magic and skill building!
Do you want to grow herbs but don’t know where to start? Monica Arndt is teaching us how to plant, care for, and harvest herbs, as well as which herbs are best for each season. In addiction to culinary and medicinal uses for herbs, she’ll be giving us tips on using herbs in tea gardens, dye gardens, and as insect repellent.
No need to sign up ahead of time; $10 per adult or $15 per pair. Or volunteer on Saturday morning, and get in free! Meet us at 1016 NW 32nd at 9am for volunteering.
Are you interested in gardening but don’t know where to start? Bean there, done that. It’s thyme to learn the basics of gardening - soil, water, seed. We’ll come up with a plant that guarantees your first garden will be a delicious success.
Spring and summer vegetable seedlings will also be available for sale. 🫡
No need to sign up ahead of time; $10 per adult or $15 per pair. Or volunteer on Saturday morning, and get in free! Meet us at 1016 NW 32nd at 9am for volunteering.
Did you know that every Saturday, rain or shine, we host and participate in community composting? If you seek to learn and practice the habit of being intentional with the use of your food waste, as well as initiating soil regeneration, you don’t have to do it alone! Join us anytime from 9 AM to noon at 1004 W Hill St. 😊 Together we can form a happier, healthier future.
John Wilson will be teaching us how to collect, save, and use scion wood to graft onto existing trees using spring grafting methods. Join us for this tree-t of a class! I be-leaf in you. ✊🏻😔
No need to sign up ahead of time; $10 per adult or $15 per pair. Or volunteer on Saturday morning, and get in free! Meet us at 1016 NW 32nd at 9am for volunteering.
48°F and light rain. 🫡
Here’s some pictures from our potluck that we had last week. It’s mainly cat pictures, oops. 😗
Go big or gourd home! Join us for our annual Great Pumpkin Smash on Saturday, November 25th, any time from 9 am to noon! What should you do with all your pumpkins left over from fall festivities? Bring them and your kids to Commonwealth, where we’ll make a big compost pile and everybody can toss and smash pumpkins to their hearts’ delight. Bring your leftover hay bales too and we’ll add them to the mix! Let’s have a gourd time. 🎃😝
Join us for our annual Harvest Potluck on Saturday, October 28th, from noon - 2 PM, to celebrate life in community. Bring a musical instrument, your favorite dish, or both! 🤗 It’s a time for friends and family - new and old.
Meet us on the Hoop House lot at 1016 NW 32nd St. 🫡
🐓 The plot chickens with our class this Saturday on Raising Backyard Chickens with our own impeckable Sara Braden! We wish you the best of cluck on attending! 🤪
No need to sign up ahead of time; $10 per adult or $15 per pair. Or volunteer on Saturday morning, and get in free! Meet us at 1016 NW 32nd at 9am for volunteering.
Join us for an evening of local food, live music by the Prairie Jazz Trio, and loads of fun with gathered friends!
Where: The Mansion
📍3101 NE 50th St., Oklahoma City
http://themansionokc.com/history
When: Sunday, October 8, @ 6 pm
What: $75 per person includes multi-course locavore dinner; open wine bar; live music; unlimited fun.
To reserve your seat at the table, visit us online!
🌱https://greenconnectionsok.org/prairie-dinner/
Stephanie Jordan is the Pollinator Outreach Coordinator for and will be sharing her butterfly expertise with us at this Saturday’s !
We’ll learn lots of fun ways to create resources and habitat to support pollinators and attract them to our growing spaces, talk briefly about bringing a few butterflies inside to watch their transformation, and learn how to make end-of-season choices in our yards and gardens that support the over-wintering locals. Each attendee will receive a free packet of wildflower seed mix to start their own pocket prairie!
No need to sign up ahead of time; $10 per adult or $15 per pair. Or volunteer on Saturday morning, and get in free! Meet us at 1016 NW 32nd at 9am for volunteering.
Today’s garden school on “Planting for the Fall” was a little rainy, but that didn’t stop us. 💪🏻
Fall is a wonderful time to garden in Oklahoma. Vegetables and gardeners alike love the cooler weather, and we (usually!) get rain. Greens and roots grow well at this time of year in Oklahoma and will provide you with delicious salads all through the fall. Knowing what and when to plant is critical to success. This Saturday, August 12, Lia's Garden at CommonWealth will share her fall planting calendar along with tips for veggies best suited for fall & winter gardening.
Learn more about composting at OKC Beautiful’s next Sustainability Social Hour!
A Social Hour for those who love the environment and OKC! August features Crystal Walker, also known as the Compost Fairy.
This Saturday, Oklahoma City Parks and Recreation Department is hosting a Science Spotlight at Martin Park Nature Center along with staff from Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden focused on monarchs and their migration! The class runs from 2-3pm and costs $5 to attend.
Check out this program, along with their other nature programming here: https://rb.gy/7skef
Have you ever wanted to learn how to grow mushrooms at home? 🍄
If the answer is YES, this is the perfect event for you! Our Growing Mushrooms at Home workshop this coming Saturday is specifically for beginners who want to learn how to incorporate fungi into their garden or compost. Learn more on our website: http://commonwealthurbanfarms.com/garden-school/
We're looking forward to our very own Nic Allen leading Sprouts and Microgreens this Saturday - you'll even have your own tray of microgreens to take home from this hands-on class! 🌱🌱🌱
In addition to the class fee, this class will have a $5 materials fee. Join us at 11am at 1016 NW 32nd.
We had a great this morning learning all about ’s brews and potions! 🔮 Thanks so much to Travis for sharing his knowledge on using food waste to create liquid fertilizers to improve soil health & benefit people using food as medicine! Check out their social media accounts to keep up to date on their work & support them as they share their knowledge!
You won't want to miss our upcoming Garden School Native Farming Solutions with Travis Andrews!
Travis serves as a board member for the Oklahoma Compost and Sustainability Association and is the founder of Native Farming Solutions, a local non-profit group dedicated to the preservation of American Indian seeds and cultivation techniques.
This class will cover the basics of making liquid fertilizer from food waste and will also include methods of watering and foliar feeding techniques. Join us on Saturday, June 10 at 11am!
Join us this Saturday, May 27 at 11am for Backyard Conservation with science communicator, Sean Washington!
Whether it’s a 2-acre property, 20 feet of fence line, or a 10-gallon pot on an apartment balcony, these are the front lines of species conservation and can be their most important spaces.
Learn why we should be serious about conservation, how we are in the perfect situation to change things and examples of how to be the conservationist and champions the species need.
Find us at 1016 NW 32nd, no need to sign up beforehand, pay on site. $10/person or $15/pair.
Join us on Saturday to learn about gardening in small spaces with Connie Pattillo! Class is from 11am-noon, which means plenty of time to make the Oklahoma Compost and Sustainability Association Compost Festival at Scissotail Park from 9am-1pm!
Learn the medicinal properties of common and culinary herbs with Timothy Trujillo from 10-11am and then from 11am-noon, Yatar Layah will demonstrate how he combines herbs with beeswax and oils to create balms with specific beneficial qualities with the opportunity for attendees to make their own!
Note: there will be an additional $5 – $25 materials fee (depending on size) for participants to make their own balm. Cash only. Herb seedlings will also be available for sale.
This class is just $10 per adult or $15 per pair. Or volunteer on a Saturday morning, and get in free! Meet us at 1016 NW 32nd at 9am for volunteering.
3310 N Olie Avenue
Oklahoma City, OK
73118
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Today, from our first ever Bug Fest. 🐝🐛🦋 Thank you for all those involved in making it one to remember and for those who came in support! #CommonwealthOKC #bugfestokc
David will be available to teach you how to sharpen your tools during tomorrow’s Garden Construction workshop, between 10am-noon! Bring those dull tools that have been sitting in the back of your shed and get them freshened up! #commonwealthokc #gardentools #urbangardening #urbanagriculture
At 11am tomorrow, Tess Linville will host a 30 minute demonstration of hand watering & drip irrigations. Throughout the entire morning, you can also join Kelly Hargesheimer for an actual installation of the system he designed for irrigating raised beds, using PVC pipe and soaker hoses. #commonwealthokc #gardenschool #dripirrigation #waterconservation
Amanda Nairn, a community volunteer who has taught dozens of rain barrel workshops, will join us for our second Garden Construction workshop this Saturday! She’ll share more about the benefits of rain barrels as well as give a primer on how to install a rain barrel! And the first 10 participants will be able to receive a free rain barrel! Video & free rain barrels are courtesy of City of Norman, OK - City Government. #commonwealthokc #rainbarrel #stormwater #conservation
We’re looking forward to the second part of our Garden Construction series this Saturday, April 23 from 10am-noon! 👩🌾 At 10:30, Allen will demonstrate how to use a scythe! Come see us at 1016 NW 32nd, more info here: http://commonwealthurbanfarms.com/garden-construction-workshops/ #commonwealthokc #gardenconstruction #handsonworkshop #gardentools #urbanfarm #urbanagriculture🧑🌾👩🌾
We’re so excited for #GardenSchool this Saturday, March 26! @seans_wild_world is going to lead a 2 hour “Intro to Birding & Bird Migration” class! Join us at 1016 NW 32nd at 10am. $10/person, $15/couple, or come early at 9am and volunteer to attend for free. #commonwealthokc #urbannature #birding #birdwatching #birdmigration
Hear more from Elia about the Green Connections' Prairie Dinner & Jazz coming up on October 3! Tickets available still - register here: https://greenconnectionsok.org/prairie-dinner
If you come by our #GardenSchool or Seedling Sale, make sure you say hi to Little Boy and our newest community member Little Bear! #commonwealthokc #commonwealthcats
Hear from Kat Gant of OKC Beautiful to hear what you can expect at Garden School tomorrow for Good Bugs: A Walking Tour of Beneficial Insects in the Garden!
Join us this Saturday, July 10th for our #GardenSchool Good Bugs: A Walking Tour of Beneficial Insects in the Garden. We’ll start at 11am and Kat Gant with OKC Beautiful will lead us in how different bugs provide beneficial services for our gardens & environments. Join us as we go on a bug hunt, and learn how to spot particular insects, learn local beneficial insects, and what plants can be grown to attract more beneficial insects.
Hear from Kevin Mink of the Oklahoma County Conservation District about what you can learn at this Saturday's Garden School Planting the Path for Monarchs! We’ll tour CommonWealth’s own pollinator gardens and pollinator plants will be available for sale from Lia's Garden at CommonWealth!
Hear from Kevin Mink of the Oklahoma County Conservation District about how the pollinator plants in our rain garden are progressing!
Hear from our instructor, Timothy Trujillo, about what you can expect to learn at this Saturday's Garden School: Herbs for Health!
We hope you can join us this morning for our hands on Success with Seeds: Tips & Tricks for Starting Transplants Inside to learn all about getting your garden started on the right foot!
We're coming up on the 10th anniversary of the founding of CommonWealth! A lot has changed since our first rows on the Olie lot and we thought it was about time to make an updated video to introduce our followers to some of the friendly faces you're likely to see around the farm.
Want to hear more about using compost for heat and how it's held up in these historic low temperatures? Hear from Elia about how our greenhouse is holding up in this video!
