Recent Posts
Recent blog posts
Comprehensive Organic Gardening Course - Fall 2011
From September 28-October 19, Oregon Tilth's Organic Education Center taught a wonderful group of aspiring and seasoned gardeners how to garden organically!
Summer Beauty and Green Manure
We invite you to the Open House and Tilth Plant Sale at Luscher Farm on September 17!
Arrival of Summer
Warm days and sunny skies bring life, color and happiness to the Oregon Tilth Demonstration Garden this summer!
All at Once...
It's a busy Spring in the Demonstration Garden at Luscher Farm. Huge thanks to our hard-working volunteers for keeping the garden weed free and well tended. Take a virtual tour of our beautiful, bountiful, and vibrant teaching space!
Spring Intensive
Tantalizing windows of sunshine during this fickle Spring lend to a rather chaotic bed-preparation and planting regimen.
Straw Bale Bonanza
Wet. Wet. Wet. After weeks of rain, we find ourselves in a holding pattern. The soil is far too wet to prep, and the few beds that were covered and/or mulched (in January) for early spring panting, have since found themselves occupied by greens, peas, onions, leeks, and a speckled smattering of lettuce.
Week of 3/14/2011
Just as we step from Spring's starting-line, the month of March has us feeling somewhat winded already - but surely satisfied. This week marks the culmination of our initial Comprehensive Organic Gardener (COG) course, as well as most of our early spring plantings.
Week of 2/21/11
Things are beginning to heat-up in the demonstration garden - the birds, the soil, the compost, our hands! This week we'll be transplanting our first batch of Spring Brassicas...
Week of 2/14/2011
Reticent to dive in, wringing my numb hands, stomping my rubberized feet, I wondered if perhaps the beds were still too wet...
Week of 2/7/2011
This time of year, the cold shoulder of the spring season, we are seeding our earliest crops, finalizing the garden plan, and remembering lessons from years' past.
Friends, Partners, Volunteers, and Students - We Need Your Input!
Luscher Farm, home of Oregon Tilth's Organic Demonstration Garden sits on the Urban Growth Boundary of Portland, OR. As a public park, working farm, community garden, and teaching space, Luscher Farm provides a valuable, and unique, gathering place for the community. It is a regional destination, both historic and progressive in nature, and it needs our ongoing attention! If you've visited, or hope to visit in the future, please complete this online survey, and tell us about your relationship to Luscher Farm. Your input will help inform a master plan for the next quarter century - preserving, protecting, and enhancing this precious agricultural resource of the Willamette Valley!
OK, NOW it's Spring...Notes From the Field.
It's funny how the sun changes everything! We're up to our eyebrows in weeds and greens, among other things...
Tilth Represents at PDX Food and Climate Day
Between tabling at City Hall's organic garden rededication and sitting on a climate discussion panel alongside author Anna Lappé, Oregon Tilth had a major presence at Portland's Food and Climate Day.
Spring, COGgers, and Cloches
Spring in the demonstration garden means a lot of things: seedlings are sprouting, greens are growing, shot-weed has shot, volunteers are our saviors, onions are out, the wind is relentless, and classes are everything!
Tragic Beans and Radiator Tomatoes: Heirloom Vegetables Contain Stories, History
Check out new book on Edible Heirlooms by Tilth friend, Bill Thorness.
Oregon Tilth in NoPo!
Expanding the Organic Education Center's garden-based classes in partnership with Faubion Elementary School and the City of Portland
Oregon Tilth and Urban Growth Bounty
Oregon Tilth is partnering with the City of Portland to help you grow and enjoy food that’s good for you and the planet.
