City Garden Farms lives!!! If ever I've done something I believed in and that made total sense to me for so many reasons and that brought out and together the best elements and talents of two enthusiastic friends then this would be it. There are many ways I could try and express what City Garden Farms is all about but "common sense for the common good" sums it up in so many ways for me.

Using Urban land to produce fresh local produce, taking fuel out of people's food equation, stabilizing food prices, creating connections with our community, creating food security for those who support us and doing something elemental really speaks to me.

Funnily enough it was this book that planted the seed in my mind, brought together many things I had been thinking about and that spoke to me in a way that made me realize that common sense is who I am and what I stand for and what I can do for other people.

So...........months later, we've got land in the city to farm and we've got an acre on Sauvies Island.

We've got seeds, starts, a planting schedule and an effective farming methodology that again makes great sense to us and is being used successfully by other small farms in the USA. We've got a stall at The Portland farmers market and we hope to attend other markets regularly. We've worked out our CSA program and got it up and running with shares available. We'll be doing A la carte pick up AND deliveries too.

We're doing all this in the City of Portland (A city we love and who's people we love) where common sense for the common good is something we all believe in.

Moss