Jack Dog Farms is an urban farm based in the Standish-Ericsson neighborhood of South Minneapolis. We hope to connect with you soon!
We focus on producing fresh fruit, vegetables, and flowers for the community through permaculture techniques. We focus on producing fresh fruit, vegetables, and flowers for the community through permaculture techniques.We care deeply about community, building a local foodshed, and helping neighbors feed their families the most nutritious food possible. Jack Dog Farms is in its fifth year. 2017 bri
ngs us back to our CSA roots and we're adding a class series that'll help both our CSA customers and any others who are interested get the most out of their food dollar: in flavor, in savings, and in nutrition. Please send us a Facebook message if you are interested, or with any questions.
We're having an explosion of Rattlesnake Beans--and look what other things have started to ripen!
We're having 2 work days at the farm and would love to have your help--it would be nice to see any of you at the farm! Sign up for (part of) one of the two days via our Facebook events:
Wednesday Aug 9, 12-8pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/374227786328995
Sunday Aug 13, 10am-3pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/279144055903376
Check out our most recent Newsletter and read what's growing, great recipes for in season veg/fruit/herbs, and other farm news. Plus, Beyonce makes a small appearance in support of KALE.
What garden item are you enjoying most right now?
Hello Everyone! We hope you had a great Fourth of July holiday. We appreciate those of you with Week A moving your pickup to Thursday because of the holiday--it...
Our first CSA Newsletter is up! Read what's growing at the farm and also great tips on how to store and prepare seasonal fresh produce--regardless of whether you get it from Jack Dog or not!
Hello there! Happy Solstice Week! We hope you all are enjoying the summer so far. We're really appreciating the days getting longer as we have more time to wor...
We had a great day harvesting fresh food for our first CSA pickup. We were pretty happy with the early season haul, which included: baby pak choi, baby beet greens, radishes and greens, chives (pictured), basil, strawberries, and mulberries.
What is your favorite way to use early summer greens?
Farm Happenings: We're busy getting plants in the ground! Leeks galore (we also planted 17 lbs of potatoes--dreaming of potato leek soup!) and all those beautiful tomatoes we seeded back in early April!
If you're interested in volunteering at the farm with planting and watering and singing (oh yes, so much singing), drop us an email [email protected] or a FB message and we'll let you know when we could use help!
We've been busy at the farm getting ready for CSA and Farm Stand season. The last few days we've been busy seeding: beans, carrots, lettuce, pak choi, radishes...are you hungry yet? What is your favorite vegetable?
Seeding (and farming in general) is a great practice in patience. We can't wait to see these little green sprouts pushing up out of the soil--and then filling CSA shares with delicious hot and sweet peppers!
Jack Dog Farms is back for the 2017 Season! It is our fifth year of growing and we are once again offering a CSA!
This year, we are also offering a class series called "Savor the Seasons" to help folks get the most bang for the food dollar through meal planning, prepping, food preserving, and just inspiring each other to cook super nutritious and delicious food for ourselves and our families.
Please check out our re-vamped website and sign up for our CSA and class series today! Also please share widely!
jackdogfarms.com
Hello All!
We hope everyone is getting as excited as we are as spring. The wonderful deluge of rain has brought on scenes of green and abundance that are sure to nourish our souls and bellies.
This year, Jack Dog Farms is going to be run as more of a community garden space. We’re looking for 10 wonderful folks/families to pick either garden plots/communal growing.
The site has not had any pesticides for more than 10 years, and has been utilized for organic growing for the last 4 years. Over these years, we’ve amended the soil with compost, mulching, organic fertilizers, cover crops and more. We utilized only organic seeds and seedlings. We hope to keep it this way, in an effort to heal this small space of earth, and to create a safe place to grow really healthy vegetables and fruits for our families.
The DEETS:
*You receive a sizable plot with incredibly fertile, healthy soil. and/or the ability to communally grow with the Farm Club
*The ability to ask questions of a long-term grower
*Access to some perennial herbs (oregano, sage, chives, mint, lemon balm) and berries that grow in the garden
*Potential involvement in garden events so you can geek out on mulch and basil
*One FREE acupuncture session with the adjacent acupuncturist, Sabrina Miller
*Access to water for your garden
Cost: $60
---This covers the cost of water from the city and also helps the landowner pay for their very high property taxes, allowing us all to utilize the space and keep some additional green space, beautifying our city.
IF you are interested or have ANY questions,, please contact Corrine Bruning at [email protected]. If you know someone who might be interested, please forward this information onto them!
Read more for an update on Jack Dog Farms and we're looking for volunteers for a Saturday May 9th Farm Get Dirty Day, 11-4! We'll supply the food!
Many folks have been interested in helping out with Jack Dog Farms. This year has been a year of great transition for the farm and for me, as many of you know. I originally planned to start the Homestead Collective, but unfortunately, the timing has not worked right for this. Thus, I’ve been envisioning a soft launch for a Homestead Collective (HC) Version 1.0 in 2015 where people are putting in a little money just to cover expenses, growing tons of veggies together, learning in a hands-on, but informal environment, and just having fun.
Here’s what I imagine. A small group of 6-8 of us communally planting, maintaining and harvesting the farm/garden. Around a little under half the space will be committed to a partnership with a local program that guides latino community members through the gardening learning process… the rest of the lot will be planted with food for us to eat. We’ll all receive a plethora of veggies both for eating but also preserving. I’m planning at least 2 classes, and at least 2 events this Summer. HC members will receive these classes for free.
I understand people have different time and money capacities, so I think these two options will help us get the expenses covered for the season (seeds, seedlings, organic fertilizer, mulch, compost, water, etc), but also get the work taken care of. I’m hoping to move a long and find this small group of 6-8 folks to work with on this project, quite quickly. So please let me know if you are interested ASAP. I’ll organize a small meeting where we can touch base, and then we can move forward with getting the garden going!
MORE DEETS!!!
Two membership options:
*2 days a week (4 hour shifts)=$95/for the season for food
*1 day a week (4 hour shift) = $145/for the season for food
Potential shifts
(I can shift these days of the week and potentially add an evening shift (like 5-8:30) if it’s needed. I’d prefer to have specific work times, because it’s easier to work into schedules, it’s more fun to work with other people, and it’ll be easier to communicate garden needs)
*Mondays 10-2pm
*Wednesdays 10-2pm
*Saturdays 11-3
Upcoming Big Work Days!
*Sat, May 2nd (need at least 2 people for this)
*Sat, May 9th (as many people as possible)
More to be scheduled with you!
Opportunities
*Intro to Permaculture Class for free (To be scheduled)
*Invites to Permaculture Network events
*We will focus on high yield and also high costs veggies, you’ll learn how to plant using the biointensive method, both utilizing companion planting, hexagonal planting, heavy mulching etc.
*JDF focuses on permaculture methods for growing. You’ll learn a ton about growing in this style, conserving water, and be able to implement this on your own site.
*We'll learn how to preserve together, from fermentation to canning.
Thanks for reading! If you are interested in the collective, please email me ASAP. If you are able to volunteer, that'd be fantastic, please also email me and let me know that you can make it! I hope you are having a wonderful spring! Also, if you know someone who you think would be interested in this, please have them email me. My info is [email protected] (or corrine.bruning at gmail.com, if email's obscured)...
Thanks and peace to you all!
Corrine
We've been up to big changes at Jack Dog Farms! Today marks the launch of our new Homegrown Learning Series!
Over the past few years, we've taken of lot of classes, and learned a ton about growing food through managing the farm. We're looking to share that knowledge with you through our Homegrown Learning Series and building what we're calling a Homestead Collective.
The Homegrown Learning Series will be a 10 class program where you'll learn how to design, install, harvest, and maintain a permaculture garden, how to meal plan, preserve and extend your harvest as long as possible. We'll first meet in class, and then apply our learning hands-on after. Classes are frequent through May and then more scattered through the rest of the growing season.
The classes will be paired with a generous food share (much like a CSA, but more food than you'd get with a CSA, so you can preserve some). This will run from Early/Mid-June - Mid-October.
If you'd like to learn more, head on over to: www.jackdogfarms.com.
Jack Dog Farms is a South Minneapolis, Minnesota based Urban Farm. Selling fresh, safe vegetables, herbs and flowers to feed you and your family.
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The tomato jungle thrives
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Hello CSA members...there was a very unfortunate typo in our last email out to you and we just realized it now. Our first pickup will be the last Wed in June. Im sending a mezsage out via email as well.
Lots of stuff done. Lots more to do. SouthWoods Forest Gardens, Permaculture Design
Looking to engage with some volunteers who want to get their hands dirty this week... According to this article, gardening is really great for your health, so let us help you out with getting healthy!
Here is our schedule for our help needed, please let us know if you're able to help us out. If you can't and you'd like to be on our e-mail list, to find out about other opportunities, please private message me your e-mail. You can help for a portion of the hours listed, or for all of them. Thanks so much!
SWF- Southwoods Forest Gardens Site (17766 Langford Blvd, Prior Lake, MN, 55372)
Urban Site (2213 East 38th Street, intersection of 38th St and Standish Avenue)
Sun/ 25 (11-5)-SWF
Mon/ 26 (11-3)- Urban Site
*Tues/27 (9:30-5/6pm)Southwood Forest Gardens Site
We can give one person a ride, or you can meet us there, any amount of time will help
*Wed/28 (9:30-5/6pm)-SWF
*Thurs/29 (10-3) or (5-8)- Urban Farm Site
*Fri/30 (10-3) or (5-8) -Urban Farm Site
*Sat/31 (12-5) -SWF
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/07/08/why.gardening.good/
Gillian Aldrich started growing vegetables in her backyard three years ago, and she's now working on planting a bed of hydrangeas, butterfly bushes, rose campion, and -- her favorite -- pale-pink hardy geraniums along one side of her property.
Hello lovers of Real Food! Facebook doesn't really allow Business Page owners (like us) to communicate directly to you if you liked our page. Silly I know!
But if you are interested in engaging with us in a deeper way, by volunteering with us, becoming a CSA member, visiting our weekly Market Stand (Wednesday Evenings starting late June) or more...
please visit our website and join our email list. You can also private message us via this page...to join that list...
www.jackdogfarms.com
Happy Birthday to Jack Dog's Farmer Justin Wells!
From Jack Dog Farms page!
Hello folks! We still have about half of our memberships to fill. There's no official "cut-off" date for membership. It's first come-first serve.
If you are interested and want to sign up please do! Say yes to a summer of uber-local, super fresh veggies! We've been growing all of our little seedlings for the past few months now!
Just a heads up, we do have installment plans, so you don't have to pay everything up front!
Hello folks! We still have about half of our memberships to fill. There's no official "cut-off" date for membership. It's first come-first serve.
If you are interested and want to sign up please do! Say yes to a summer of uber-local, super fresh veggies! We've been growing all of our little seedlings for the past few months now!
Just a heads up, we do have installment plans, so you don't have to pay everything up front!
This just in! 2014 Jack Dog Farm Members receive 20% their first time visit to our Zhen-Qi Acupuncture Clinic (located right next to our Urban Farm Site).
This is in addition to 5% off anything additional you purchase at our market stand, like an extra bouquet for your loved ones, extra tomatoes for canning!
We're so excited to bring on a new group of members this year. We're planning a few events:
*BBQ and Bonfire at Jack Dog Farms
*A number of workshops on food preservation (lacto-fermentation, building a solar dehydrator)
*A Haunted Farm Party with Bike-powered hayrides!
Please check out our website, jackdogfarms.com, to sign up and pass this information on to your friends!
Here's a picture of some deliciousness that our member Jenny Splinter created with her CSA goodies last year.
This just in! 2014 Jack Dog Farm Members receive 20% their first time visit to our Zhen-Qi Acupuncture Clinic (located right next to our Urban Farm Site).
This is in addition to 5% off anything additional you purchase at our market stand, like an extra bouquet for your loved ones, extra tomatoes for canning!
We're so excited to bring on a new group of members this year. We're planning a few events:
*BBQ and Bonfire at Jack Dog Farms
*A number of workshops on food preservation (lacto-fermentation, building a solar dehydrator)
*A Haunted Farm Party with Bike-powered hayrides!
Please check out our website, jackdogfarms.com, to sign up and pass this information on to your friends!
Here's a picture of some deliciousness that our member Jenny Splinter created with her CSA goodies last year.
It's a week of lots of work at Jack Dog Farms. The day after we erect our DIY Hoop House, unexpected intense winds blew it down. You can see the damage in the below pictures.
We're looking for help to re-erect it tomorrow. Please let us know if you're available. Feel free to give us a call at 612-418-2702 or email us at [email protected]
April 15 and April 16th 2014: We erected a DIY hoophouse with two tents (usually used as carports) and greenhouse material. During the evening, an unexpected super windy night blew this house 25 feet away and over the fence.
April 15 and April 16th 2014: We erected a DIY hoophouse with two tents (usually used as carports) and greenhouse material. During the evening, an unexpected super windy night blew this house 25 feet away and over the fence.
Hello friends of Jack Dog Farms!
We finally finished our website! It now includes an online form to register for our CSA! Please check it out. If you're interested in a CSA, you can fill out the form.
If you could help us spread the word about our CSA that would be so helpful!
Thanks!
http://www.jackdogfarms.com/
Here's some spring-spiration as we're planning on growing flowers for bouquets and the happiness of our pollinator friends...http://www.pinterest.com/corrine_bruning/les-fleurs/
Explore Corrine Bruning's hand-picked collection of Pins about Les fleurs on Pinterest. | See more about perennials, perennial flowers and dahlias.
Any new farmers looking for land? Saw this on craigslist... Might be worth checking out.
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/grd/4346228555.html
Posted: 2014-02-23 9:10am post id: 4346228555 posted: 2014-02-23 9:10am updated: 2014-03-06 12:23am Beware wiring (e.g.
The park system has developed a draft plan to better support the community’s diverse activities and interest in urban agriculture. The plan was developed through an extensive community engagement process and contains recommendations related to policy, facility, program, and service improvements. Goa...
For 18 years, the Birchwood has nourished a growing community with Good Real Food. Now it's GROW time!
Sooooo... Jack Dog Farms was chosen to be part of the Apprenticeship program through Permaculture Research Institute Cold Climate. If your interested in learning more about permaculture with hands on experience this might be for you. Check it out ya'll!
http://www.pricoldclimate.org/urban-farming-programs/apprenticeship
Permaculture Research Institute - Cold Climate | Ecological Design in the Upper Midwest
MN
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