A nonprofit urban farm in Portland, OR. On a mission to regenerate abundance in our communities by growing and sharing seeds.
For every seed packet we sell, we donate 1 packet to BIPOC and low income communities. Creating community through cultivation.
Blessings! It’s time for a work party this Saturday 8/31 from 8AM-2PM. We have tons of seed to harvest and even some fall crops to plant 🌱 it’s going to be hot, so come early and bring a hat or some sun protection ☀️
Then we are having another work party on Labor Day, Monday 9/1 from 9AM-4PM. Tell yo friends!
Hope to see you there!
You’re invited to a Deep Mulch Garden Party on August 11th from 4-9PM at God’s Garden in the Cully neighborhood!
Join us for a workshop on the deep mulch method, tour the garden, or just kick back and sip on herbal elixirs while listening to DJs spin vinyl amidst the flowers. It’s gonna be a vibe 🎵
We will also have the cob pizza oven fired up, and there will be opportunity for folks to enjoy freshly made pizza with toppings straight from the garden! There will be salad and garden snacks as well, for those that are gluten free or don’t want pizza.
The vibrations will be held by on the Kora, and on the wheels of steel, with guest DJs likely
Herbal Elixirs will be crafted fresh from the garden by Elixir Bar
The event runs 4-9PM, and we will post a detailed schedule for the days activities once we confirm in a week or so :)
Shoutout for sponsoring this event, and all of our other local partners who are lending a hand with logistics.
Looking forward to seeing you all there! 🌿
The plants are popping and we need your help! Come on by to one of our work parties and lend a hand 🤝 ☮️ we’d love to see you!
Upcoming Work Parties:
June 29th 9-5 at Rhythm Seed Farm
6841 NE Prescott St
July 1st 4-dark at Rhythm Seed Farm
6841 NE Prescott St
July 3rd 9-5 at Deep Mulch (God’s Garden)
5525 NE Going St
July 4st 9-2 at Rhythm Seed Farm
6841 NE Prescott St
🪴LINK IN BIO🪴
We have lots of starts to spare and share! Head to the google order form linked in our bio to snag some ✌️ You can place an order through the form and then pick up your plants at the farm. Payment through Cashapp, Venmo, or Paypal 🌱
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Let’s make the most of May 🌸
Join us for our upcoming work parties!
We’ve added an evening work party on Friday, May 24th for those of you who aren’t able to make it to the daytime weekday parties 🌱 Stay tuned for more weekend volunteer opportunities in the future!
We hope to see you there 🫶☮️
CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS 🌱
Here are the upcoming work party dates for Rhythm Seed Farm and the Deep Mulch Farm in Cully! This sunny weather has the plants growing like crazy so we need all the help we can get as we head into summer ☀️ Come on by when you can or shoot us a message if you’re interested in volunteering but can’t make the dates listed. We’ll try our best to find a time for you to come get your hands in the dirt! ☮️
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Join us at for an afternoon of seed magic next Thursday 2/8 from 4-8PM
Best believe we will have some cool seeds to trade!
Cool beans 🫘🫘🫘
And much much more ✨
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Freshly glazed crops in the field today.
Can’t believe the cacti are still looking decent under a sheet of ice. They were collected growing wild on the San Juan islands in WA, so they can handle the cold, but idk if they ever get iced like this up there…pretty impressive! Badass little creatures ✊🏼
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Mystical patterns on these “Turquoise Lagoon” sweet peas from .seeds 🌀
Swipe to see what they looked like a month ago 🤔
Somehow in the last few weeks the plants have started producing flowers with spots that look like eyes. Pure magic.
A little bit spooky, highly mysterious, and absolutely one of my favorite surprises of the season this year in the garden.
Very curious to see if this expression will manifest in next years crop, or if it’s a one time blessing.
Either way I am in awe ✨
TOMORROW: Join join us from 3 PM to 5 PM for a workshop on how to grow some of our favorite rare, edible plants from our 2023 catalog!
We’ll be taking about achocha, chia, magentaspreen, miner’s lettuce, NZ spinach, orach, quinoa, sesame, tree collards and yacon.
We’ll be covering how to start from seed or propagate, care for, harvest, and save seeds for each of these plants.
Seats are just $30, so use the workshop link in bio to sign up!
Have you ever wondered whether in your herbal supplements really contain the plants they claim to? Cases of food fraud are rising with inflation, and, with herbal medicines already poorly regulated, it is harder than ever to know if you are getting what you’ve paid for.
Down at the farm, we have a mantra— when you grow, you know.
Studies into herbal medicine fraud regularly find 1/4-1/2 of products are fake, full of fillers, or are contaminated with substances like pesticides and heavy metals. (Nerds can DM for links to journal articles!)
No organic labeling, influencer recommendation, or product review can substitute for your five senses.
Luckily, we can grow a huge range of medicinal plants right here in the Northwest. Join us on Saturday, May 27 at .homestead.supply and take back your power over your herbal medicine supply.
Link to register in bio.
Come visit us at the Home and Garden Idea Fair at Clark County Fairgrounds!!
We will be here the next two days selling locally grown seeds and starts - come say hi and pick up some plants for your garden 🌿
Find us inside amidst the plant madness 😵💫
Expand your knowledge of plants you can grow at home in the PNW! 🌿
Limited seats remaining for both workshops, grab one today before they fill up!
Thanks to .homestead.supply for hosting, looking forward to the workshops in such a beautiful space
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Learn yourself somethin new!!
Propagation is one of the most powerful tools for repairing the earth, feeding yourself and your community, and regenerating abundance on this land in which we trod. Not to be overlooked in its power and potential for creating positive change….serious stuff here folks, life changing empowerment material.
Come thru the farm next Thursday 4/27 for a collaborative workshop about plant propagation with
We will be chatting about all types of propagation techniques from fruit trees to medicinal ground covers and everything in between!
Learn how to create hundreds of plants without spending a penny at the nursery. Seriously. This information is worth it’s weight in gold…or at least in fruit 🫐😝
Suggested donation $20-$40
DM if you have any questions 🏵️
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Just dropped off all these free seed packets to the seed swap and scion exchange in Eugene at the Campbell Community Center
If you’re in the Eugene area, head on over to the event - it’s a plant lovers dream! Free scion wood and free seeds of hundreds of varieties.
Loving the power of community sharing and the abundance of the plant world. Gives me hope and inspiration for creating a preferred future full of fruit and food. Fruit full futures. I’m here for it 🌿
Now to mob back to Portland and bust out the grafting knife….
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HOLY BASIL BATMAN!
Registration for our April 29 workshops at .homestead.supply is now OPEN 🗓
Come learn everything you need to successfully grow 10 rare or uncommon plants here in our beautiful bioregion, and choose 4 packs of seeds to take home. 🌱
From 12-2 we will be covering 10 popular herbal supplements and medicines that you can grow at home. ⚕️
From 3-5 we will be discussing 10 rare edible plants you can play with this planting season! 🍽
There are only 12 spaces available in each, so make sure to get yours now! Follow the link in our bio to register.
100% of registration fees directly support our nonprofit’s work distributing seed donations and cultivating our farm through the next seed harvest. Alongside the packs of seeds you will take home, 4 more will be donated to our community partners.
We are delighted to be partnering with Kindred, a super cool low-waste homestead supply store in downtown Vancouver. Thanks, Kindred, for bringing us into your community!
Rhythm Seed Fam, give them a follow — their feed is a feast for the eyes 🤩
Jostaberry cuttings…sometimes I just can’t bring myself to toss pruned branches into the compost, especially with a plant that grows roots with ease.
Jostaberry is that plant.
No rooting hormone needed, no special care, just plug it into the ground and it knows what to do. You’d want to cover it to retain humidity if you were taking cuts in the summer, but this time of year that’s not a concern.
Expect us to have dozens of young Jostas for sale this summer. Once the cuts have rooted out we will divide them and pot them individually.
Btw I’m fairly certain it’s pronounced “yaw-stah” not “jah-stah” for those of you who are scratching your head wondering how tf josta is pronounced. That’s the word on the street from the homie who knows his obscure fruits 🙌🏼
All set up at the seed swap, come thru and grab yourself some seeds and say hi! 4609 NE Simpson St.
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Plenty of cool selections, here is a little snippet of what we got:
Broomcorn
Orach
Gaillardia
Japanese Indigo
Dill
Field Peas
Chervil
Garlic Chives
Cylindra Beet
Daikon Radish
Ashwagandha
Cowpea
Garlic Bulbils!
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It’s seed swap time family! 🌱🌱
We will be bringing out a selection of random seed lots and various collections from over the years - swing by and say hello and don’t forget to bring your seeds!
Time to share in our abundance ☀️
Huge thanks to Farmer Ted for the connection with Simpson barn.
Looking forward to the new varieties and connections with fellow seed lovers and gardeners 😊
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Ladies, gents, and all beyond the binary — we are thrilled to announce that YOU met our matched funding goal for our first ever holiday fundraiser! Between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day, you helped us raise $2500 — which our wonderful partners at matched.
Last year we donated more than 3,000 packets of local, organically-grown seeds around Portland and Southwest Washington. Your generosity is quite literally making it possible for us to establish our online seed shop and prepare our 2023 seed donations. Our harvest this year was even more bountiful than our first. Now you have given us the funds we need to ensure that it is cleaned, packed, and distributed this coming growing season.
As a new seed farm, and an even newer 501c3 nonprofit, your support means the world to us. Many people who take on insane challenges — like building a nonprofit from the ground up — are so committed to helping others that asking for help can be a vulnerable experience. Speaking for myself, the way you've showed up for us has been deeply humbling and intensely rejuvenating. I am a puddle of gratitude.
Thank you for sowing the seeds you wish to see in the world.
Sincerely,
Laura
Director of Development
Come out and support the homies! is throwing a community planting event at near Airport Way tomorrow from 9-2. Come thru and help get some trees and shrubs planted for your community🌲🌳🌲 There will be food trucks and of course, you guessed it, beer!
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Yours truly will be there on the 1s and 2s spinning vinyl records ONLY from the underground riddim seed vault from 11AM-2PM 🕺🏼 come kick it and enjoy the vibes. Leave your musical requests in the comments and i'll bring the records if I have em...hope to see some familiar faces there 🙌🏼 peace!
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Plugging away in the seedhouse running germination tests, cleaning seed, and admiring the abundance of the season 🌿 even though the garden is mostly dormant, the inside work never slows down!
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Once the germination test results are back we will need help stamping, filling, and labeling packets for distribution in 2023. Holla if you want to lend a hand and help us pack some seeds! Usually we are just chillin listenin to music, chatting, and packing away..its a pretty nice work environment compared to some of the rainy muddy farm work parties! lol 💦
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We will be announcing some seed-packing work parties in the next few weeks so stay tuned. Super busy behind the scenes. Huge shout to everyone who has donated to our fall fundraiser, we have raised over $1000 which is amazing, but we are still a long way from raising what we need to survive through 2023. Know someone who could use a pollinator garden in their yard instead of lawn? Tag them and let them know we would love to design and install one for them as part of our fundraiser! We are going to need the support of our community to keep doing the good work we are doing. Thanks for spreading the word and making this world a better place! ❤️ 🌱 ✊🏼
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We are so grateful for the East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District (EMSWCD)! They generously funded our project to install a food forest on our farm this year and we just finished planting it a few weeks ago 🪴
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In addition to their funding, we also received plant donations from Portland Nursery. 🙏🏼 what a blessing. We sourced the remainder of our plants from One Green World Nursery, here is a list of some of the things we planted:
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Hazelnut
Stone Pine
Pawpaw
Fig
Sea Berry
Hardy Kiwi
Wintergreen
Honeyberry
Blueberry
Lingonberry
Grape
Tea
Yaupon
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Not your average food forest! We are all about diversity and learning about unique food crops here, so of course our food forest is a bit eccentric, just like we are 🙃
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We supplemented these plants with many of our own propagated starts, so the food forest also contains the following perennials:
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Peach
Olive
Apple
Eucalyptus
Pineapple Guava
Chilean Guava
Elderberry
Strawberry
Lavender
Raspberry
Jostaberry
Maximilian Sunflower
Persian Catnip
Ashwagandha
Madder
Alexanders
Cinnamon Vine
Lovage
Valerian
Woad
Burdock
Flowering To***co
Thyme
Oregano
Sage
Plantain
Yarrow
St. John's Wort
Achira
Comfrey
Camas
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In addition to all of these, we will plant dozens of annual flowers, herbs, and vegetables amidst the polyculture of the food forest in 2023 to provide an additional layer of diversity (as if there wasn't enough already!)
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This entire project is intended to be a model/demonstration garden and provide inspiration to city residents who are curious about converting their land into a productive food space. Want to come visit the food forest? Send us a message and schedule a time to come by and take a look and get some inspiration for your own plot! We offer landscape design services, so we are happy to provide a plan for you to execute in your own yard once you are inspired. Mid-Late Summer or early Fall would be the best time to come visit, because right now the plants are mostly dormant and don't look like much. However if you want to come by and take a look during the winter, spring, or any time, we are here for it! 🙌🏼
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It's that time of year! Give the gift of growth this holiday season 🎁
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We've had a wonderful 2022 growing season and are busy processing seeds and making big plans for 2023. Now we need your help to bring them to life. 🌱
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Visit our new website to explore our holiday fundraiser, annual membership benefits, and other ways to give. We have special promos and limited offers for landscaping services available through December 31st 🥂
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Scenes from Fall 🍂🌧🍃
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1 - Oca (oxalis tuberosa) flowers, you rarely see these, but this particular cultivar is flowering heavily right now
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2 - Mexican Sunflower beaming bright orange in the evening light. These flowers are lighting up the garden right now when many other plants are done blooming
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3 - Rocky Mountain Bee Plant seeds clinging to the framework of their seed pod which has fallen away. Caught these just in time before the winds and rain reclaimed them into the soil
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4 - Bamboo Tipi full of climbing beans, and heavenly blue morning glory with Mexican sunflower and cosmos in the foreground. Lovely color palette, and you can go inside the tipi for a taste of heaven
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5 - Pineapple Sage bursting with flowers, the hummingbirds are working this plant heavily and it is a joy to have in the garden. The first flowers emerged just a week or two ago, after being planted in April. Not for the impatient!
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More posts and updates coming soon, got a lot of exciting announcements in the near future. So busy right now yall, it’s madness 😵💫
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Looks as good from the back as she does from the front 😍 those green petal looking things are actually called the “involucre” and I have no idea how to pronounce that lol but they are gorgeous even without a name to describe them by..what a beautiful pattern and symmetry.
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This is “Big Smile” sunflower from . These were supposed to only grow 1-2ft tall but instead they are 7-8ft lol kinda messed up my design plan but there ya have it….
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Blueberries and sweet peas…ahh the joys of mid July. Don’t forget to stop and smell the flowers y’all. Before you know it they’ll be nothing but sweet memories 🌸🫐🌺
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Shoutout to for donating a bunch of plant starts! 🙏🏼✨❤️
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We are working to plant a perennial food forest demonstration garden and they graciously gifted us a bunch of appropriate plants. Goji Berry, Kiwi, Black Raspberries, Everbearing Strawberry, Rosemary, Sage, and Lavender. Amazing.
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We are so grateful for their support of our organization and for helping us fulfill our mission to educate and serve the community through cultivation.
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Thankfully we tucked these plants into the ground a week or more before the heat wave, so they had a bit of time to adjust before getting blasted by the sun the last few days. Very excited to watch the food forest grow and come into its own over the next few years 😊
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I realized today that I haven’t posted on IG in almost a month. Amazing how quickly time passes this time of year when the days are long and the garden work is literally endless. It’s hard for me to find time to post on social media and engage with the digital world when there is so much going on in my physical space. After a 12 hr day in the garden the last thing I want to do is spend time crafting a post about the work I just did! I do want to share more of what is going on in my daily life tho, and I am working towards a balance of doing the garden work and creating content at the same time. So please bear with me as I post sporadically and sometimes don’t respond to DMs for weeks. I’m going to try and post more reels with auto text captions to make it easier and more simple to create content. I promise I am busy in the trenches doing the work that allows me to master my craft and then teach y’all how to do the same. If anyone wants to come hang out and take videos of me doing my thing in the garden and then edit them into educational clips, please be in touch.
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Meanwhile I will do my best to create quality content while also keeping the garden flowing, processing/distributing seeds, and finding a way to pay the rent!
It’s a lot to juggle at once, but I’ve always been a good juggler 😊
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Since my last post a lot has happened….we’ve had record rainfall in June, the farm has been a swamp and now all of a sudden it’s 100 degrees out of nowhere….talk about an erratic season! The strawberries are finally ripe (many weeks late) and tons of seedlings are emerging and hopefully not getting devoured by the hordes of slugs that have thrived with this long wet cool spring.
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