8:30 AM - 4:30 PM This series of free tours will be available to immigrant farmers, farm apprentices, and farm educators. Tours will be held at regional farms using sustainable growing practices. A wide variety of growing scales and systems will be presented, ranging from hand-scale vegetables to 80-acre wholesale operations.
Registration required! Please contact Sarah Brown at sarahroseb@gmail.com for details and to register. Space is limited.
* Transportation provided. Meeting location TBD at 8:45am.
10-12pm Flamingo Ridge Farm 12-1pm Lunch & Drive. Please bring a bag lunch. 1-3:30pm Gale’s Meadow Gales Creek, OR
Flamingo Ridge grows mixed vegetables on over 5 acres of ground, 1 acre entirely in greenhouses. They have a unique water management system in place allowing them to capture and store over 1 million gallons of water for use throughout the summer. They sell to some of Portland’s best restaurants and farmers markets.
Gales Meadow Farm grows hundreds of varieties of vegetables year round on 9 acres. In early spring they grow and sell plant starts at farmer markets. They are organic certified and actively involved in teaching farming through a number of local programs.
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