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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.

Cat in a Kale field
22/10/2024

Cat in a Kale field

Kohlrabi is very in style this season. Nothing like feeling great on the everyday kohlrabi diet… you ought to try it!
15/10/2024

Kohlrabi is very in style this season. Nothing like feeling great on the everyday kohlrabi diet… you ought to try it!

Photographing my sweet potato harvest like dudes take photos with their fish catches! Not the best harvest, but I’ll ta...
03/10/2024

Photographing my sweet potato harvest like dudes take photos with their fish catches! Not the best harvest, but I’ll take it!

Candy skies!
24/09/2024

Candy skies!

10/09/2024
She’s a whopper!
20/08/2024

She’s a whopper!

The farm is more abundant than ever, a wedding gift from the farm perhaps?!?!. Please check out some of the new offerin...
16/08/2024

The farm is more abundant than ever, a wedding gift from the farm perhaps?!?!. Please check out some of the new offerings we have this season. Also it’s a great time to start thinking about snagging a fall share membership! Dm me to order or check out CSA options in the link in bio

May we present to you, the married couple, Taya and Seamus Sweet!
13/08/2024

May we present to you, the married couple, Taya and Seamus Sweet!

Carrot with child!
30/07/2024

Carrot with child!

Clean straight lines! The pride and joy of market farming!
23/07/2024

Clean straight lines! The pride and joy of market farming!

Intercropping quick crops like turnips, herbs or radishes between bigger slower crops like broccoli or Brussels sprouts ...
09/07/2024

Intercropping quick crops like turnips, herbs or radishes between bigger slower crops like broccoli or Brussels sprouts is a win this year!

The landscape is so much this year! If you look too close at the crops they are a little hairy with weeds, but we’re tr...
09/07/2024

The landscape is so much this year! If you look too close at the crops they are a little hairy with weeds, but we’re trying our best! Proud to see our new spot coming together!

Chard patch is so healthy this year it’s become a little refuge for my tiny dog friend!
02/07/2024

Chard patch is so healthy this year it’s become a little refuge for my tiny dog friend!

Last of the spring garlic for the season! Hello summer, can’t wait more flavors!
25/06/2024

Last of the spring garlic for the season! Hello summer, can’t wait more flavors!

Obie naps and birds sing while we run around crazy planting, watering, setting up irrigation, laying fabric to protect o...
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.

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

We want to help you eat your veggies! Sign up for our CSA and get weekly delivery of fresh veggies! Our shares this yea...
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!

Seamus and Micheal building out our walk in cooler with the strength and dedication of only those with mighty midwestern...
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!

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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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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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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!