Love Your Momma

Naomi & Mamo before cutting down cover crop oats

Yes we will be open on Mother's Day.  Come get treats with mom or come in and get garden goodies together.  : )  Ooo and take her to The Fruit Hunters film screening tonight!

POTATOES: another order due to your potato lovin' demand!  All are Early varieties, Certified Organic, heirlooms and good keepers: Irish Cobbler, Dark Red Norland and Warba, along with Purple Peruvian Fingerlings - we'll post when we have an eta.  Currently in stock until those land: German Butterball, Viking Purple, Caribe and Butterfinger Fingerling

Sassy, strudy tomato cages and new trellising panels will be here by the weekend.

Oregon Tilth has a great workshop coming up on Saturday, May 18th, Growing the Most in Your Space at Colonel Summer's Community Garden in SE Portland with Colleen Lockovitch.  Learn more and register online. (also fun to take your mom to...)

And our next workshop is Thursday, May 16th, 2013   6 - 7:30pm  at Naomi’s Organic Farm Supply  Organic Soil Amendments: The Who, What, How and When by Naomi Montacre

Whether you are experienced or you are new to gardening, this class will make you confident on all aspects of feeding and nurturing the soil in your garden each year so your plants thrive. Nitrogen options, Minerals, pH, mycorrhizal fungi and more will be covered in this fun informative talk. With an introduction to cover crops, manures and mulching.  Questions encouraged!  $15, register order@naomisorganic.com

Hot Crops & Ducklings first swim

HOT Crops are here!  Cinco de Mayo!

As of May 5th, 2013 with a high of 85 today, it feels like July 5th .. but! that's two months away.  We have an excellent selection of tomatoes, peppers and eggplants along with the first round of cucurbits and many seeds for corn, beans, cucumbers, zucchini, winter squash, lettuce, all your root vegetables and everything else.  Along with an amazing amount of tantalizing veggie, herb and flower starts for your garden.  Just remember it's still early for some crops.  It could stay summery like this or it could hail, frost.. rain for three weeks... just keep an eye on the weather and protect tender crops as needed.  We stock floating row cover and greenhouse plastic by the foot or roll and custom cut 9 gauge wire if you'd like to make a hoop-house or cloche.  Our plants mainly arrive Tuesdays and Fridays each week.

We have organic ducklings available and this morning was their first swim.  We were caught up watching them, so here is a photo post-swim getting a little warm up.  5 Khaki Campbells, 3 Fawn & White Runners, 5 Cayugas and 5 Welsh Harlequins - small scale, out of state family hatchery (born 5/1/13)

Get Dirty Farm Tours, Potatoes, Workshops + The Fruit Hunters

Our third big potato order and the last of this season is HERE:

All Seed Potatoes are Certified Organic - 50lb German Butterball, 50lb Purple Viking, 50lb Red Norland, 50lb Yukon Gold, 5lb Carola & 25lb Butterfinger Fingerlings (50lb Purple Peruvian Fingerling have not landed yet, checking on eta)

Mark your calendars for the next Portland Ecofilm Festival Screening, The Fruit Hunters at the Hollywood Theater (yummy pizza, popcorn and drinks) with an awesomely fruity panel discussion after the film with Katy Kolker (Portland Fruit Tree Project), Jim Gilbert (One Green World), Harriet Fasenfest (author, Householders Guide To The Universe), Joanie Cooper (Home Orchard Society).

Get Dirty Farm Tours - sign up today for April 27th tour with the awesome Lane Selman, to Quail Run Hollow Creamery, where Oona and Binga's parents are and loads of cute baby goats + delicious cheese and to a picnic and wine tasting at Big Table Farm, makers of wonderful wine and home to draft horses, pigs, chickens and Irish Dexters.  Learn more about this and future tours on their facebook here and online here to register.

WORKSHOPS:  A couple of workshop dates have changed and are updated with full details at our Workshops link.  Please call or email us to register in advance.

Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 5:30-6:30pm at Naomi’s Organic Farm Supply
Gardens of Eatin’: Advanced Vegetable Gardening by Jen Aron

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 6 - 7:30pm at Naomi’s Organic Farm Supply
Useful Weeds: A Medicinal Foraging Guide to your Backyard by Chris Randolph

Thursday, May 16th, 2013 6 - 7:30pm at Naomi’s Organic Farm Supply
Organic Soil Amendments: The Who, What, How and When by Naomi Montacre

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 6 - 7:30pm at Naomi’s Organic Farm Supply
Goats! by Naomi Montacre

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 6 - 7:30pm at Naomi’s Organic Farm Supply
Bawc & Quack! The Backyard Flock by Naomi Montacre

Thursday, May 30th, 2013 6 - 8pm at Naomi’s Organic Farm Supply
Fruiting & Flowering Hedgerows: Attracting Pollinators and Your Tummy by Naomi Montacre & Carissa Albin

Workshops for Spring 2013!

We just updated our list of coming Workshops and you can find them all here and contact us to sign up.  Yay!!

Organic 'Jersey Knights' Asparagus Crowns are in - those of you who pre-ordered, we have yours bagged up in the back and are calling / emailing and we have plenty if you'd like to come by and get some or you can contact us to have yours set aside.

And current baby chick availability is listed here + next duckling order and May chick breeds listed here soon, too.  : )

Fun events in early April

Life Complexes on Itself from Symphony of the Soil on Vimeo.

the Our Table Farm crew

* Organic Rhubarb Crowns are in *

Our Table Farm Open House is today from 3 to 5pm in Sherwood

InFARMation and Beer! (and great food) at Holocene is Tuesday 4/9 from 5:30 - 8:30pm - see you there  : )

Symphony of the Soil at the Hollywood Theater is Thursday 4/11 at 7pm and after the film, Naomi is moderating the Q+A with the filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia.
 

This film is awesome!  Cinematically beautiful and truly fascinating, the film travels the world and talks with very interesting people.  Most of us are happiest when we got some dirt under our nails and love our soil, knowing we exist because it does and nurture it.  but what is soil really...?  There is also live music before the film from Blue Flags & Black Grass and the theater has food and drinks, too, so come a bit early and get dinner there, Atomic Pizza, popcorn with real butter, soda, wine, tea,  candy and Salt & Straw ice cream (all these things exist for you to eat because of dirt!  ha haaaa!).  And Friends of Family Farmers will be there tonight, too.

Check out The Portland Ecofilm Festival on the theater's website and facebook for more great films in the coming months.

The Side Yard Farm's Nomadic Chef Kickstarter campaign and her delicious Raffle Brunch on the farm in Northeast Portland's Cully neighborhood is Sunday 4/14 and you can buy tickets here and win so many super cool prizes from us and many other great shops listed at the tickets link and any donation to Stacey's kickstarter is greatly appreciated, too.

More potatoes, chicks + new irrigation kits

Potatoes landed! and have been inspected for future yum by Oona Bee Riot. 

Big delivery morning, with hazelnuts, soil, more broadforks, feed, new irrigation kits and Ameraucana chicks all here! (we're calling you now if you pre-ordered). 

And the rain is GOOD today, all the plants we've all put in, the seeds we've sown, are smiling. this gentle steady rain is the equivalent to the best hot soak in a tub for us humans... mmm ideas for tonight! ; )  Potato varieties listed in the post below - Purple Majesty may ship next week, all the rest are here.

We are OPEN March 30th & 31st

we may have summer fever when we see you... but we will be here!  : )
(yes, it could still snow, it will rain, but right now it's so much fun, viva la garden!  reading and movies later)

Plants: many gorgeous and yummy charmers available, fruit trees, flowers, berries, ooo. la. laaaa.

Peepers: as of 6pm 3/31... Chicks = 2 silver laced wyandottes, 2 buff orpingtons, 1 black sex-link and ducklings sold out until April & may. next Friday 4/5 Ameraucanas / Easter Eggers

Tomatoes: if you have a greenhouse or the like, the first round of tomatoes are available by pre-order for the coming weekend April 6th & 7th - call or email your order order@naomisorganic.com - Sungold, Black Cherry, Vorlon, Cosmonaut Volkov, Valencia, Amish Paste, Principe Borghese, San Marzano

Potatoes: here as of Thurs 4/4! (next batch landing later this coming week), includes 80#s Carola, 80#s Red Norland, 50#s Caribe, 50#s German Butterball, 50#s Yukon Gold, 30#s Purple Majesty + 25#s Red Thumb Fingerlings and 25#s French Fingerlings

Goat Keeping Video with Naomi, Binga and Oona

♥ Goat Video by Cooking Up A Story with Naomi, Binga and Oona! and more to come with the others in this video, Nori of Going Goaty on Making Chevre Goat Cheese and the Arcements on their NE Cully neighborhood goat farm... viva la goatlers!

+ Chicks are here, with walk-in peepers available, listed here and pre-purchased chicks are set aside in the back for those of you who pre-ordered.  Ducklings mostly pre-purchased, but some available, check the link above and we're also putting together a May order - email if interested order@naomisorganic.com or call us.

good morning!

good morning!  we love you!

irish or not, elves unite!!

many fun photos over on our facebook page  : )
(will add here in the future, too)

Meadow Creature Broadforks, rawwrrr !!

Naomi's mom's first time with the broadfork

We LOVE these excellent broadforks, handmade on Vashon Island and flying out of the shop this weekend....  5 went home to gardeners and farmers today... 12 more coming in the middle of the week. 

We carry all three sizes, the 12" (new this year), 14" and 16" tines.  You're welcome to call ahead to reserve yours or check on the next batch landing and we normally have all three sizes in stock.  Learn more in the article High Quality Tools for Wiser Living in Mother Earth News.  Family and friends of ALL ages will be competing for their turn with your broadfork... it really is that fun of a tool.

Veggie starts & seed potatoes are here!

The first vegetable, strawberry and herb starts of 2013 have landed.  It's like deja vu..... welcome back spring..!

Organic seed POTATOES and onion sets are here: Caribe (early), Yukon Gold (early), German Butterball (mid), Carola (late), Yellow Finn (late) and Fingerlings = Princesse La Ratte and Purple Peruvian.

Fresh shipment of books just came in and three more book orders are on the way.

Pre-order organic asparagus and rhubarb crowns for April and non-og Seascape Strawberries, ever bearing.

Monday on our lovely day off, Naomi got her Mom and Carissa tattoo's from our friend, Luis Campos, who is in town as a guest artist, yes... a werk perk indeed. More veggies this Saturday, balmy 50's in the forecast... 

OPEN 6 days a week from 10 - 6pm

{POST in Progress}
We are open on Tuesdays again and open until 6pm for spring and early summer.   Yay!

Here is a sweet video of our shop in early December by Cooking Up A Story - a nice 'before' of the shop in the quiet of winter. When you come in, you'll see the 'after'... all the fun we've been up to re-crafting the shop in the last three months, stocked with oodles of seeds and new tools. More photos to come and much much love to all of you for making us the place we get to share together. You are the best! 

Baby Chicks are here! If you've pre-ordered, we've got them in a cozy brooder in the back for you and there are plenty of adorable chicks to choose from if you's like to come by and of course! they are always up for adoring visitors who'd like to say hi. Mary picked them up from the hatchery, kept them super toasty on the way here and Chris has everyone happily situated.


So many neat events coming up...
Naomi & Mary will be tabling and attending the following events and seeing you there, still time to register:
NW Oregon Dairy Goat Conference at Clackamas H.S. (new location)
Small Farms Conference at OSU in Corvallis
Farm-Chef Connection at The World Forestry Center in Portland

And farmers - email us with our cat MARVIN's name in the subject line... she's raffling off a free ticket to Farmer-Chef soon order@naomisorganic.com


Siskiyou seeds are here, the seed rack is giddy! Many gorgeous and edible perennial plants in and early veggies and herbs start in a week or two.  Pea seeds beckon you.  Oh they really do...  ; )

Organic Potatoes & Onion Sets coming in late Feb / early March.  Organic Asparagus crowns, Organic Rhubarb crowns and non-og Seascape Strawberry crowns are all available for pre-order.