Bring Forth Urban Farm
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We use no pesticides, no chemical fertilizers, no GMO.
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5512 Hawthorne Avenue
Richmond, VA
23227
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Monday | 9am - 5pm |
Tuesday | 9am - 5pm |
Wednesday | 9am - 5pm |
Friday | 3:30pm - 5pm |
Saturday | 8am - 5pm |
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Our Farming Journey
My first real taste of market gardening was in 1959 when I was twelve. My grandfather had three acres of green beans, two acres of sweet corn, several fruit trees, milk cows and chickens. He paid me five cents per row to hoe weeds. My best day was 11 rows for $.55. I didn’t like the work much, but I loved my grandfather. Some of the best knowledge of my lifetime came in the cookie breaks under the pear tree. Those stories are too big for this page.
My professional life took me many places, and nearly everywhere we had a garden, sometimes because of necessity. Retirement brought us to our present home where I took up gardening in a big way. I took up the hybridization of daylilies as a way to keep fit and do something useful and contribute to the family income. The dream of breeding high performance plants with great beauty was hampered by very poor soil.
Frustration drove me to soil science. This led me to study with the Bionutrient Food Association where the focus is growing truly nutritious food achieved by attention to soil minerals, microbes, and natural solutions. The grower’s task is to discover and address all limiting factors that would hinder a plant from growing to its full genetic potential. This practice solves most pest problems naturally and yields the tastiest most nutritious food with the longest shelf life. Check them out at www.bionutrient.org
So we do soil remediation with compost, compost tea, worm compost, biochar (carbon for the soil to act as a hotel for microbes and sponge for water), rock dusts, soil testing, specific minerals, and practice no till--low till farming. In our improved soil we plant mostly organic seed and avoid GMO seed or seed grown in a Roundup context.