Wild West Urban Farm

10/07/2023

09/23/2023

Some farm goodies for a friend…

09/10/2023

What a great year it has been for the farm!! Sooo many tomatoes! And beans, peppers, kale, potatoes, apples, pears, berries and more. 2023 is a bumper crop year. Thank you weather goddess! ❤️❤️❤️

05/29/2022

My kind of manicure!

06/15/2020

Me at the farm today planting the peppers. Thanks to my good friend Mags for documenting the happenings.

06/15/2020

One of my favorite iris seedlings this year!

06/09/2019

Don’t be jealous...but it’s Oregon strawberry season!!!

06/09/2019

Taking a break under the garden pavilion after a hard day of work digging up culled iris and planting tomatoes...and I noticed how lovely it all is. ❤️

04/29/2019

Lettuce breeding experiments continue! I pollinated my favorite butterheads with my favorite looseleaf lettuce. About 3 dozen one-of-a-kind lettuce babies planted and I’m eagerly awaiting results. And the best part is I get to eat the failures. 😋

04/19/2019

Hee hee, my life.

03/29/2019

The farm’s fruit trees are blooming and the bees are buzzing. Not too long now until iris season!!

02/28/2019

This happens NEVER!

11/04/2018

Now this is really cool! ...for serious nerds only.

10/12/2018

Final hurrah of a fantastic tomato season. Some wonderful new tomato seedlings that taste as good as they look.

10/07/2018

My tomato crosses made the banner photo on the Tomato Breeding FB page again!

I've been breeding toward dark flesh in striped tomatoes ever since I came across a dark-fleshed plum tomato in Barcelona with a super sweet finish under the skin and crossed it with Brad Gate's Large-Barred Boar.

09/22/2018

Sandra took this photo of the Farm a few days ago while “borrowing” some tomatoes.

09/22/2018

Tomatoes, figs and beans! I ❤️harvest season. These are all my breeding project tomatoes from different sites, but all delicious.

09/17/2018

Scrumptious homemade apple pie tonight made with Pink Pearl apples and Himrod raisins grown on the farm. The MOST impressive thing is that Brighton harvested the grapes and made the raisins himself. What?!? Yep, true story.

06/23/2018

Brighton is simply THE BEST! He spent all morning prepping and putting in 72 trial tomato seedlings. Thank you!!!

06/22/2018

First Marionberry milkshake of the summer! Great harvest of Marionberries, raspberries and blueberries today at the farm.

06/05/2018

Sandra wanted lettuce so here’s another picture of my lettuce breeding experiments. You can see the different colors and textures. The real test will be the taste. I’ll sample a few leaves and the tastiest will be allowed to bloom and produce seed for next year. The losers become dinner. Buttercrunch x Prizehead again.

06/03/2018

Last year I tried my hand at lettuce breeding. It was REALLY hard because the flowers are so tiny. But I had some success! Here is a recent effort to combine tender leaf lettuces and butterheads. This particular cross is from F3 buttercrunch x Prizehead.

10/20/2017

09/27/2017

Collecting beans from farmers' markets in Spain and Portugal to bring home and grow!!!

08/21/2017

Here are the early results of breeding efforts to create striped, pear-shaped tomatoes!!! So far 4 very different colors and flavor. How cool is this???

08/09/2017

The summer harvest is ready! Cukes, beans, berries, dill and even a few early tomatoes. Yum!

08/07/2017

Collards and dinosaur kale are ready to be harvested! They are starting to crowd out the iris babies.

07/20/2017

First Persian cuke of the season! These things cost a fortune at the grocery store.

07/16/2017

The tomato breeding project is a rousing success! So far, 6 seedlings out of 20 are striped and pear-shaped. Can't wait to see the color range and taste test them. Thank you to my brother Brad, Charrissa and their kids for growing the parents for me over the winter so that I could save a whole year on this project.

07/04/2017

Not only is our farm practical (produces food) but it is beautiful! Here is our poppy patch in full bloom.

07/04/2017

The great tomato breeding experiment is underway! We have about 100+ tomato seedlings planted from hybridized crosses done last year between heirloom varieties. Yum!

04/21/2017

It's almost iris season! Contain your excitement. 😊

04/18/2017

"Num, num, num", that's what my neighbor texted me today when this cute rascal was spotted in the farm. It can have all the weeds it wants, but it better not eat my iris babies! I asked Brighton to shoo it next door to eat all that lovely grass, but it was gone by the time he arrived. Anyone want a bunny? You catch, you keep.

04/15/2017

01/29/2017

I'm in Florida and just harvested seeds from 6 tomato seedlings that my brother grew out for me from crosses I made last year. All the parents were either pear-shaped or striped. I'll grow out all the seeds and hopefully come up with a striped pear-shaped tomato that tastes great! This Florida seedling tomato one was my favorites - already way tastier than normal pear-shaped tomatoes. Stay tuned...