We use no pesticides, no chemical fertilizers, no GMO.
This urban farm exists to bring the most nutritious produce to ourselves, our families, our neighbors and friends, and to a few choice restaurants who appreciate nutritional excellence grown locally.
09/01/2022
The time has come to end my run as Bring Forth Urban Farm. I say THANK YOU to all our loyal customers.
Several pressing matters cause me to immediately curtail all operations. This includes deliveries and appearances at Lakeside Farmers Market.
Several things are before me.
1. prepare our property for sale. We have some deferred maintenance. We need many trips to the dump.
2. We hope to sell as an urban farm. Doing so means we can keep our greenhouses and grow beds. To take everything down and return everything to grass seems a waste. If you know of a farmer who would like to purchase this farm, please let us know.
3. I must focus on building our non-profit for our Zambia work. This includes finding a host of regular donors. I hereby invite any who read this to step up.
4. We hope to move to a more rural place with about an acre, all rooms on one level. Outbuildings to enable collections to ship to Zambia. This includes Bibles, books, tools, and equipment that can be used to increase the skill and productivity of those we serve.
Anybody who reads this who is mission minded and would like to serve in a more significant way, let us know.
08/20/2022
Mountains of Microgreens today. Buy 2 and get the 3rd one free!
07/09/2022
Microgreens and salads are in full supply today ar Lakeside Farmer's Market.
Come inside where you will be greeted by our associate Emma Hoy. She serves our Country as a US Marine, and now serves in the Reserves.
At Market 9 to noon today. Come grab your greens!
05/20/2022
New products today. Baby Romaine Lettuce. Baby Mixed Greens. And a bountiful supply of New Zealand Spinach, our Gourmet Lettuce Mix, and our Gourmet Mixed Greens.
And Microgreens, the super food! Come and get it!
Lakeside Farmers Market each Saturday 9 to noon!
05/19/2022
We accomplished much in 4 weeks in Zambia. A highlight was meeting with Chief Mukuni who gave his full blessing on our work in his tribe. In nearby Muchinga Village we are building the Abundance Training Center that will seek to improve the livelihoods of many of the poor farmers, widows, and orphans there.
We need a few more regular donors who will help activate the abundances need there.
04/09/2022
for the next few weeks our table will be managed by Emma who served our country in the Marines and is still serves! She brings a cheerful presence and works hard now that I go to Zambia for a month. I will appreciate your prayers as we build the infrastructures of the Abundance Training Center by which we seek to improve the livelihoods of many.
Microgreens are in abundance and we have a good supply of our salad mixes and lettuces and spinach.
Come on down to Lakeside Farmers Market, 9 to noon each Saturday where we attempt to bring the most nutritious greens to help improve the health of our customers.
04/02/2022
Plenty of each of our wonderful Microgreens plus gallon bags of spinach and our Gourmet Lettuce Mix. Everything is triple washed and ready to eat. Inside at Lakeside Farmer's Market 9AM til noon. To enable many to choose our produce we have not raised prices since 2018. So our food is a good bargain. Very fresh and nutritious. Come and get it.
03/26/2022
Plenty of our ready to eat Gourmet Lettuce Mix at Lakeside Farmers Market today. And our various microgreens are in fine form. Come on down for the nutritious and mouth watering goodness!
03/12/2022
Microgreens to boost your health and your mood.
03/12/2022
Plenty of microgreens today. Come on down to Lakeside Farmer's Market and get your Mighty Greens.
03/06/2022
High school students came for 1.5 hours of public service credit. I expected 8 and 15 came.
03/04/2022
Our Microgreens are in short supply this week. We have Sunflower Shoots, Rambo Purple Radish and that is all. We had changed soil and mold took out several crops of Microgreens. There are four gallon bags of spinach.
So come early to be sure of having your Mighty Greens.
Lakeside Farmers Market. 9 to noon.
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My first real taste of market gardening was in 1959 when I was twelve. My grandfather had three acres of green beans, two acres of sweet corn, several fruit trees, milk cows and chickens. He paid me five cents per row to hoe weeds. My best day was 11 rows for $.55. I didn’t like the work much, but I loved my grandfather. Some of the best knowledge of my lifetime came in the cookie breaks under the pear tree. Those stories are too big for this page.
My professional life took me many places, and nearly everywhere we had a garden, sometimes because of necessity. Retirement brought us to our present home where I took up gardening in a big way. I took up the hybridization of daylilies as a way to keep fit and do something useful and contribute to the family income. The dream of breeding high performance plants with great beauty was hampered by very poor soil.
Frustration drove me to soil science. This led me to study with the Bionutrient Food Association where the focus is growing truly nutritious food achieved by attention to soil minerals, microbes, and natural solutions. The grower’s task is to discover and address all limiting factors that would hinder a plant from growing to its full genetic potential. This practice solves most pest problems naturally and yields the tastiest most nutritious food with the longest shelf life. Check them out at www.bionutrient.org
So we do soil remediation with compost, compost tea, worm compost, biochar (carbon for the soil to act as a hotel for microbes and sponge for water), rock dusts, soil testing, specific minerals, and practice no till--low till farming. In our improved soil we plant mostly organic seed and avoid GMO seed or seed grown in a Roundup context.
This journey has improved my results with the daylily plant performance, so that in recent years my plants were winners at the RADS Daylily Show held at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens each June.
However nice winning shows is, my interest has returned to growing food. So we are transitioning from perennial pleasure plants to grow the most nutritious salad possible. Microgreens, baby greens, salad greens, carrots, beets, radish and basil in our first year, and consider other vegetables as we go. All these crops can be produced ten months of the year, and a few crops can grow year round, especially microgreens.
We chose the name “Bring Forth” because the phrase suggests exactly what our mission is, in the words of Noah Webster in his American Dictionary of the English Language of 1828, “ To bring forth is to produce, as young or fruit; also, to bring to light; that is, to make manifest, to disclose.” This, to me, describes a teaching farmer, who teaches his customers and fellow growers a better way to live and eat.
We welcome you to join this hard working effort to “make things right” by the purchase of what we produce. We believe that the food we grow is of superior nutritional value. We cannot afford to register as “Organic” but our practices are well beyond what is required to be organic. All natural inputs, organic non-GMO seed, no chemicals, man-made fertilizers, and minimal tillage in the effort to make our food our medicine.
