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Growing Lots Urban Farm

A bodacious urban farm in the Seward neighborhood of south Minneapolis. Growing fresh foods right in your hood!

Growing Lots is an urban farm in the heart of Minneapolis. We're dedicated to growing lots of healthy, sustainably produced food right in the neighborhood of the folks who consume it. A visit to our farm will show you that neglected urban spaces can be transformed into places of beauty, gathering, education, and abundance.

13/05/2024

Obie naps and birds sing while we run around crazy planting, watering, setting up irrigation, laying fabric to protect our crops, opening new ground, making sure our basement isn’t flooding, build fences… we really love days like this! So chaotic, so peaceful all at once, makes for full hearts.

10/05/2024

Little plant sale coming up and we are making it fun. Thanks for for hosting! And .online.haha for bringing the tunes! Come say hi!

23/04/2024

We want to help you eat your veggies! Sign up for our CSA and get weekly delivery of fresh veggies! Our shares this year will include strawberries as after as we can manage!

07/04/2024

Seamus and Micheal building out our walk in cooler with the strength and dedication of only those with mighty midwestern mustaches can possess! Thank you for supporting this project with the LOFF grant! Our garage is about to be transformed into the pack shed our dreams!

21/03/2024

Find a CSA drop off near you! If you’re interested but would like a closer drop location, just say so and we will see what we can do. We love CSA season and can’t wait for you to join us!

19/03/2024

Happy spring! Garlic field is about to pop! If you look past the barn into the orchard you will see our cover crops being all green and glorious!

04/03/2024

Friends, it’s CSA sign-up time! It may not seem like it now, but fresh veggies are just around the bend. Be ready for a summer full of nourishing flavors and fun recipes while supporting small scale sustainable farming by becoming a CSA member today. Sign up link in bio. Share widely!

09/10/2023

Garlic anyone? I’ve got seed garlic available! German extra hardy! One pound is roughly 35-40 bulbs, which as seen in my most excellent handy diagram takes up about a 5 foot bed if you plant six inches apart four rows to a bed! $15 per pound! Bulbs are selected for best clove production for easy cooking. Dm me to order!

03/10/2023

Sometimes the boxes just look so fine!!!

26/09/2023

19/09/2023

Probably the best five dollars I’ve ever earned! That’s it that’s all it says and I love it! Thank you!

13/09/2023

Honey Crisps available this week! Be on the look out there for our apples throughout the season! We have many apple flavors to introduce you to!

11/09/2023

10/09/2023

Growing Lots of Apples! We haven’t picked a new name yet but we have definitely made a ton of changes since stepping away from our urban lots last fall! It’s apple season here on the farm which is a brand new season for us!

28/10/2022

We couldn’t be more excited to see this development come to fruition! Though we are so fond of the urban farm that was for the past decade we must not forget that we where not the first and we definitely won’t be the last to love this little piece of land! We are beyond grateful for all the lessons, the nourishment, community, farm family and friends we gained. This has got to be one of the most loved and blessed parking lots in the world so I know it’s future will be bright! As for Growing Lot and us as farmers… we are also under construction… so stay tuned exciting things are on the horizon!

14/10/2022

Help us say goodbye to the little ecosystem we created as a community. We loved this parking lot so much and it loves us back!!!! Time to give gratitude what’s been and send blessings to those who will love this land next! We are excited to celebrate big changes!

03/09/2022

Hotties!

24/08/2022

It’s so easy to enjoy peak summer goodies!

17/08/2022

I was gifted this pumpkin from a parking lot! I did not cultivate this. Talk about reciprocity! While we built the soil, an entire ecosystem sprung into action creating it’s own system of mutual aid. I like to imagine that a squirrel dragged some pieces of a pumpkin that children maybe smashed on the street to eat under our shade tree. The seed fell to the ground and from there the seed knew exactly what to do! The microbes, the pollinators, and every living thing either let it be or conspired to help it thrive. Go team! You did an amazing job, this pumpkin is perfect and I love it! Thank you!

05/07/2022

Two things I wish everyone knew:
1. You can grill greens and it’s amazingly delicious and easy.
2. The city is bursting with berries right now. Many berry patches go unnoticed and unpicked, explore your neighborhood and you’re almost guaranteed to find some sweetness!

05/07/2022

Pick up locations
Seward:
Kingfield:
NE MPLS:

02/07/2022

You know… for your cat!

02/06/2022

Growing organic rainbows since 2008!

24/05/2022

This page might just turn into an Obie only page.

17/05/2022

Frolicking up streams is my favorite way to spend time with my sweet little family!

16/05/2022

Obie’s baby pictures. We picked him up 5 years ago today!

13/05/2022

Farms not looking too bad after a record chilly spring and a couple rounds of covid.

04/05/2022

Ok Obie, get to work!

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Monday	09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday	09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday	16:30 - 19:00
Thursday	16:30 - 19:00
Friday	16:30 - 19:00

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http://www.growinglotsurbanfarm.com/

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Pick up locations Seward: @growinglots Kingfield: @locusarchitecture NE MPLS: @indeedbrewing

Garlic planting, check. 🧄

Obie is branching into film. “Snow Dog” episode 1. ☃️🐶

Taste the 🌈 rainbow!!!!!

Mix master on the salad spinner!

We fell in love with our new tine weeding rake immediately! Took thirty seconds to cultivate a bed. It takes care of weeds when they are just the tiniest specks, before they become a problem! Best part is that it isn't rough enough to damage your crops! I almost want to cry, thinking of all the hours I could have saved if I had found this tool ten years ago.

Someone has a little spring fever! Me too little buddy! Me too! #urbanfarming #springfever #growinglots #growinglotsurbanfarm #farmdog #wintergarden #csa

Getting by with a little horse power from our friends at Two Pony Gardens. Tilled up new ground for this year's squash patch. Hope you love squash, we're planting 20 varieties... for no other reason other then being fanatic squash growers.

New technique for our composting endeavors, helps the melons break down faster!

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Our Story

Growing Lots Urban farm is a ~1 acre market farm located in the Seward neighborhood of South Minneapolis. We occupy several previously vacant city lots (two of which were parking lots!) and have turned them into a highly productive, healthy vegetable farm. We sell our produce directly through our community via our CSA (community supported agriculture) program and local farmers’ markets. You may be wondering how do you grow on parking lots?! The short answer; We manufacture soil utilizing local waste streams, so not only are we small scale farmers, but small scale waste managers. Our compost consists of organic food scraps from Co-op Partners Warehouse, wood chips from local tree services, shredded leaves from the neighborhood, plant debris from Mother Earth Gardens, coffee chaff from local roasters and beer mash from Insight Brewery. We even take in compost offerings from the households of our CSA members. Oh! And we also have to give credit to the hard working draft horses over at Two Pony Gardens in Long Lake. Not only do they offer a free source of composted manure, they plow the field at our rural site where we grow squash and potatoes. The alchemy of building compost is the magic and science that turns vacant parking lots into an abundant urban farm!