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Turning unused lawns into fresh, local produce using sustainable and regenerative practices.

07/21/2022

Just a Proud Plant Papa and nature nerd gawking over collard greens.

07/07/2022

I have totally fallen in love with collard greens this year. They're one of those crops that looks SO gorgeous every time I walk out on to the farm, tall, upright and vividly blue-green. I've also discovered they're excellent sauteed in a little butter or bacon fat with some salt and pepper and eaten with eggs and breakfast sausage from .grass.dairy in the morning. So delicious, in fact, that I was too busy devouring them to take a picture today 😳👨‍🌾🍳

Veggies are looking happy in the morning sun after all that rain. It's a great day to be a farmer.

07/06/2022

Rather a magical night in Plant Paradise.

06/24/2022

Caught you blushing! The Sungolds are starting to turn! Might have a few quarts next week...on the unlikely chance any escape my ravenous on-the-job snacking 😬👨‍🌾🙃

06/16/2022

Showers this time of year can be a real difference-maker 😁🥕☀️

06/15/2022

Forget the lettuce. I'M wilting in this heat! Still, the weeds don't take days off, so sometimes neither can I. Therefore, it's 5am wake-up times, bust, ahem, *hiney* until 2pm, and siestas and pool time in the afternoon this week.

Is working so far! Record harvests of beets, carrots, radishes, kale and collard greens, none of which apparently take days off either! Compared to them I guess I'm a lazy farmer 😁👨‍🌾☀️

Come see me at market this week and make the work worthwhile! Who am I kidding? It's . If course you'll be there. 🧡🤍💚🥕🥬

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06/01/2022

Look who surprised me this evening!!!

05/31/2022

Taste-tested three varieties of early carrots pulled from the field this morning. HOLY MOLEY these things taste nothing like the orange wax sculptures of carrots you get in the stores. So vibrant, and with a texture that's crunchy but still somehow soft and not chewy. Incredible!!!

They're still between 1-3 weeks away from harvest size (I'm a novice carrot grower, so it's hard for me to tell), but it looks like there will be plenty when they do! I'll be so excited to add orange (and, on occasion, yellow and white - I'm trying out a few heirloom varieties) to the market table soon!

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05/14/2022

No time to snap a photo at market today because the Clintonvillains swarmed High Street as soon as the bell sounded and I couldn't dish out greens fast enough to satiate their appetite for fresh veggies. But I did manage to grab a selfie as I sipped my tea in Plant Paradise (aka home) before I left.

Perfect day. Perfect market. Thanks to everyone who came out to and kept me busy loading, spritzing, selling and smiling. This really is the best market in town, probably in Ohio, and possibly in the world.

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05/06/2022

ENORMOUS harvest this week!!! The sky may be gray, but come out to market tomorrow morning at and you'll be bombarded with all the colors Plant Paradise has to offer.

Brave the rain for a few minutes and get to taste the freshness of spring all week? Sounds like a good trade to me. 🌈🥬🎪

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05/03/2022

Bursting with life: a top-down view of plant babies thriving in the spring. Most of these are from Plant Paradise, my experimental home garden, but some are also from the farm.

Palnts are beautiful. 'nuff said

1: Spinach
2: Tomato
3: Vinca
4: Marjoram
5: Lisianthus
6: Moroccan Mint
7: Dracula Plant
8: Asiatic Lily
9: Oregano
10: Lettuce

04/29/2022

It's been a cold and cloudy spring here in Ohio and the plants are geowing about as slowly as I trudged to the bus stop as a 3rd grader, but the hoop house managed to squeeze out a few pounds of lettuce mix this week (the fields are ready to erupt with more than a few pounds next). A good thing, too, because I promised the folks at City Folks Farm Shop () I'd have greens for them this week!

City Folks is one of my favorite shops in town. They carry supplies for farming, gardening, and homesteading and are HUGE supporters of local, sustainable, ethically run businesses. Going in there feels like stepping back in time to a place where you run into the same neighbors over and over and just plain feels like home. The surroundings of tools, seeds, jars and cast iron skillets practically beg for you to stay a while and jaw about the weather (as if us farmers needed any encouragement)!

In addition to supplies, City Folks carries a small assortment of local foods, including the pictured Vinaka greens. But they ALSO serve as a pick-up spot for local good that people can order online. This arrangement gives customers access to the full array of goods produced by local makers/growers while making those makers/growers' delivery routes a lot more manageable. This year, I'm one of those producers, so if you can't make it to market on Saturday morning you can pre-order from the full range of veggies to be harvested that week (link in bio) and pick it up at City Folks at your leisure. I drop off before 11am every Friday morning.

If you're in or around the Clintonville area, you should definitely pay City Folks a call. Just be warned: to go there is to run a serious risk of acquiring new hobbies that become obsessions in no time.

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Columbus, OH

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http://vinakaurbanfarm.square.site/

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