A Garden start CSA and Year-Round Gardening Course Series We are a market garden and greenhouse, as well as a community education project.
Living City is a group of three seasoned gardeners working several sites in the Cully Neighborhood in NE Portland. We manage our greenhouse and gardens with an emphasis on biological controls and adhere to organic standards, although organic certification is not a goal. Rather, we prefer to develop direct relationships with the community members that purchase our plants and produce, thereby cuttin
12/18/2025
Let the urban forest build its soil.
Leave the leaves - why? Ferns, wildflowers and grasses thrive. The rich duff is 50% air; it absorbs rain in the winter (no puddles) and holds moisture through the summer. Why? Because all the fallen leaves and other organic matter stay onsite and cycle back into the soil.
12/05/2025
yes, you can eat from your garden year round!
Year round abundance - from your garden. Tender, sweet chicories, and sparkling mustards for our fall and winter salads. Delicate, gourmet salad greens like máche, miner’s lettuce and wild violets pop at the edges of every bed, and we’ll be tossing calendula petals, blue stars of borage, and purple mustard blossoms in the salads til...
11/30/2025
Come fill your basket at Blueberry Learning Farm.
Open garden today! Work/learn party, tour. Medicinal herb harvest and processing, garlic planting, tasting. Harvest some treats to take home. Greens, herbs, edible flowers. Get inspired for your own garden.
11/26/2025
Fall care for the urban farm....and forest.
Fall planting and other tips Thinking of planting trees or other perennials? Now is the best time. Transplant shock is lessened by cooler temperatures and moist soil. Top growth is slow to nil, so plants will have all winter to grow new roots. And you won’t have to water until late spring!
11/14/2025
At Blueberry Learning Farm, you really can eat from the garden year round.
Kiwi harvest 11/16; 2026 classes! What’s a hardy kiwi? Recently renamed “kiwi berry” in some marketing, it’s related to the larger fuzzy kiwis. They’re about the size of a grape, with smooth skin, no peeling needed. As the weather turns cold and wet, hardy kiwis are just starting. They peak in November, and can h...
09/29/2025
Eat from your garden year round......
Class: Garlic, Winter Food, Cover Crops Welcome the rain, and cooler, cleaner air. And, days are getting shorter. Time to protect your plants (and soil) so your winter crops will be delicious and nutritious til spring. Plus we can plant more salad greens and other overwintering crops- if we get right on it.
09/02/2025
Growing our own seeds is part of growing next year's harvest...and beyond.
Class Sept. 14: Growing Seeds Or, maybe you want to keep it simple. Fortunately, many vegetables are much simpler than squashes. Beans, tomatoes, lettuce….there are still a few things to know, but it’s not rocket science.
07/11/2025
Sweet summer treats! Come get them!
Harvest Party 7/20: Pear and Apple Our ultra-early apple and pear trees are ready to pick! Come learn tips for telling when a fruit is ready, and special needs of the pear harvest. Plus we’ll fill up the solar dryer so you get to see how it works. Learn ideal slicing technique for drying. And of course you can harvest fruit...
07/08/2025
Another class to help us eat from our gardens year round!
Class 7/17: Hot Weather Planting for Winter Eating And what are we planting? Endive, escarole and radicchio. These hardy chicories sweeten after frost and will give us delicious and beautiful salads through the winter.
05/28/2025
Water wise vegetables? Yes.
Class 6/12: Water conservation; Planning for Year Round Harvest On March 23 it was 80 degrees. Last week it was 60 and raining. Today it's 88…what's next? I’ll keep my raincoat and sun hat by the door. Rollercoaster weather is the hallmark of climate change: extremes at both ends, with rapid change.
04/30/2025
So much to do in the garden now! Weeding for sure. We could use some help.....
Class and work party May 11: Weed/seed/harvest In the morning we’ll be identifying and removing weeds. Some from around precious native wildflowers - learn advanced plant identification! (and yes, we'll talk about which "weeds" are also edible and medicinal.) In the afternoon, a more formal class. -weeding tools and techniques: less work...
04/06/2025
We'd better learn to build soil, if we want to eat next year.
Class April 12: Composting, Carrots and Chaos Control And your soil is the best investment in your garden. (After planting a tree.). These native glacier lilies wouldn’t thrive here if we had not been building deep, rich soil for years. Like planting a tree, the best time to start building soil is ten years ago (or more). The second best time is...