City Farm SLO is a proud partner in the 2022 College Corps program. As a Community Host Organization, City Farm SLO is advising 28 College Corps Fellows - Cal Poly Students who are working with us to complete 450 service hours in the areas of climate action, food security, and K-12 education. Fellows are aligning their experiences around their specific interests and career goals while powering our education, farming, and food security programs. So far, Fellows have been leading harvests, serving as docents during farm field trips, assisting with our Therapeutic Horticulture Programs, and providing support to our tenant farmers! Fellows are building technical skills in regenerative agriculture, gaining hands-on experience in K-12 education, and even driving our tenant's electric tractor! |
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Therapeutic Horticulture at City Farm SLO This month we welcomed our new Therapeutic Horticulture students, 7th and 8th graders from Laguna Middle School and Los Osos Middle School. The students collected eggs from our chickens, foraged for raspberries, and harvested kale to feed to our sheep. Check out this video to follow along with the students on their visit to the farm! Video credit: Clare Nowel |
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1.2 Acres Available for Lease at City Farm SLO Apply now to lease prime farmland. Includes water, access from Highway 101, and supportive services through City Farm SLO. Learn more on our website. |
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Our Garden for All is Fully Funded! Recent grant awards from the Access for All Fund at the SLO Community Foundation and the City of SLO Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grant have combined with individual contributions to meet our fundraising goal for our Garden for All! See recent news coverage here. Raised bed construction begins this week. Sincere thanks to all of our supporters for making this project possible |
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Delivering 30,000 lbs of veggies! In the next several years, City Farm SLO has committed to delivering 30,000 lbs of fresh produce to the SLO Food Bank. Grant funding from the County of SLO Public Health ARPA Grant has supported a vehicle purchase which will allow staff and volunteers to move more veggies than ever before! |
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Scaling and Expanding San Luis Obispo County Farmer Collaborative Partnerships We are proud recipients of a USDA Farmers' Market Promotion Program Grant! We will be working along with partners Harvestly and Slow Money SLO to help small-scale farmers get more produce to markets. Read more about our project here. |
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Our First Frost We had our first frost last week, so a lot of our summer crops will need to be removed from the field all at once. Throughout most of the year we have a slow and steady supply of green waste, and we have no problem running it all through our small thermophilic compost system. However, when we have an event that creates too much green waste all at once, we need to get creative with how we compost it all. We have several options: Make temporary compost boxes out of old palettes, and we’d take them apart when we’re done Make temporary compost piles mounded on the ground and cover with tarp Make another Johnson-Su Aerobic Bioreactor to create compost rich with fungi “Chop and Drop” the green waste onto walkways and along fence lines to create organic mulch that will compost in place Let the sheep and chickens compost the edible plants into manure
As long as we are adding the organic matter back into our soil somehow, we will be adding to the fertility and productivity of the farm. |
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Sara Sternberg, Farmer Sara started her career in agriculture and environmental resource management after earning her B.S in Biology. For the last six years, she has been the principal owner/operator of Common Garden LLC, gardening and irrigation business specializing in on-site water reuse systems such as greywater and rainwater catchment. Before starting this business, she worked for many years on holistic livestock ranches and organic farms in Northern California. Sara recently moved to SLO to attend Cal Poly to obtain her Masters in Hydrology and Watershed Management. In her spare time, Sara can be found riding her dirt bike and reading about archeology and conspiracy theories. We are fortunate to have Sara on our team! |
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City Farm SLO's Pasture-Raised Chicken Eggs are now available on Harvestly.co! These dark-yolk delectables come from a happy, healthy flock. All sales support our youth edu programs. | | |
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