Farms: Vegetable
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Shawn Linehan photographs family farms of all kinds from organic vegetable farmers to biodynamic farms to regenerative agriculture. Most farms are small-scale and have a lot of biodiversity, a key to fighting climate change. This gallery represents many of the vegetable specific farms she has photographed.
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17 galleriesThe Side Yard Farm and Kitchen is a unique urban farmed in the Cully Neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. It's owned and operated by chef and farmer Stacey Givens. Stacey grows specialty vegetables, herbs and flowers for restaurants and her catering business as well as for the community.
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4 galleriesAyers Creek Farm is small scale, family owned farm in Gaston, Oregon. Anthony and Carol Butard are also plant breeders who have been developing varieties suited to their land. They are know for their Arch Cape Chicories, beans and Peace No War Corn. They also grow a range of fruits and grains including sour cherries, and frikeh.
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23 imagesAdelante Mujeres, based in Portland, Oregon, holistically educates and empowers low-income Latina women and their families to own their own farms.
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223 imagesALBA is an Organic farm incubator program located in the Salinas Valley, California. ALBA’s mission is to create economic opportunity for limited-resource and aspiring organic farmers through land-based education in the heart of the Salinas Valley. Their 100-acre training facility is a place of learning and advancement for hard-working, low-income farm workers and aspiring farmers seeking a better life.
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57 imagesBlack Locust is a small scale, family farm owned by Dan Sullivan in Sandy, Oregon.
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75 imagesBlue Fox Farm is a family owned, small scale farm located in Williams, Oregon. The Southern Oregon farm grows mainly for wholesale and farmers markets.
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80 imagesChadwick Gardens is a special educational garden located on the campus of University of California Santa Cruz, but not affiliated with the university. It provided educational opportunities to beginning farmers and serves as an historical site commemorating Alan Chadwick.
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71 imagesJosh Volk and Matt run a one acre farm in the Cully Neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. They provide a season CSA share to members of the Portland community.
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93 imagesDancing Roots farm is a vegetable farm just outside Portland, Oregon which specializes in heirloom vegetables. Shari and Brian supply many local restaurants with vegetables and also offer CSA boxes for the community.
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2 galleriesDiggin' Roots farm is a Certified Organic family owned, small scale farm in Mololla, Oregon. They grow vegetables for the farmers market and CSA members and also raise sheep and pigs.
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85 imagesOriginally from Oaxaca, Mexico, Virginia Herrera and Zenon Ramirez worked on Spring Hill Organic Farm for 25 years. Now as Eloisa Organic Farm, named in honor of Virginia's mother, they've made their dream of organic farm ownership a reality.
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2 galleriesTayne and Katie own and operate a small scale, family farm in Corbett, Oregon. They grow vegetables for CSA members and for the farmers markets in nearby Sandy or Portland.
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3 galleriesFlying Coyote Farm is located in Sandy, Oregon near Mt. Hood. It's a woman owned, small scale farm providing vegetables for CSA members and for the farmers market. It also raises pastured pigs and chickens.
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40 imagesFlying Onion Farm is a small-scale organic farm in Canby, Oregon just outside of Portland. Jolene and Adrianna together have many years of farming for others and are happy to finally be farming for themselves.
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26 imagesFox and Bear Urban Farm is a woman owned, queer owned, small scale farm on Sauvie Island near Portland, Oregon. Katie sells to small grocery stores, CSA members and restaurants.
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59 imagesFull Plate Farm is a family owned, small scale, winter farm located in Ridgefield, Washington. Danny grows vegetables during the cool, rainy months of winter in the Pacific Northwest.
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120 imagesGathering Together Farm in Corvallis, Oregon is one of the oldest organic farms in the region. It supplies food to farmers markets, restaurants, and CSA members.
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5 galleriesGoFarm Hawaii trains new farmers in organic farming practicies and farming business skills on the island of Oahu.
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89 imagesGoodfoot Farm is a family owned, small scale farm near Corvallis. The farm is Certified Organic and Demeter Certified Biodynamic. From their website, "We work hard to minimum our use of off-farm and petroleum dependent inputs and practice a method of agriculture that strives to emulate a natural system. Fundamental to the success of our production system is the integration of animals for fertility and weed management, our selection of crops and cultivars for pest and disease control and our practice of “farmscaping” which provides habitat for native pollinators and natural predators of pests."
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51 imagesHedlin Farms is a 4th generation organic and conventional vegetable farm based in the Skagit Valley of Washington State. Shawn visited Dave Hedlin to check out the Perennial Wheat he was growing for Stephen Jones of the Bread Lab.
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80 imagesLil' Starts Farm is a small-scale organic farm serving the community of Portland. This photoshoot was on their farm at the Headwaters Farm Incubation Program, which is a 5-year program. Lil's Starts has a CSA and sells to restaurants like Grand Central Baking.
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103 imagesLocati Onion Farm in Walla Walla, Washington grows most of the regions Walla Walla onions, a large, very juicy, sweet onion. The Walla Walla onion is a variety adapted to Washington that originally came from Corsica, Italy.
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33 imagesMike Heath is Idaho's pioneer organic potatoes farmer. He began growing organic when everyone around him thought he was silly or crazy, which was over 30 years ago.
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132 imagesOn a visit to the Hanelai Farmers' Market, Shawn met some of the farmers of the family owned and operated Moloa'a Organica'a Farm and was invited to photograph the farm. From their website: "We are a family operated organic farm that grows 4 acres of a wide variety of vegetables and about 20 plus acres of fruit trees such as mango, avocado, lychee, bananas, papayas, etc. We sell our produce to farmers markets from Kapa’a to Waipa, and serve restaurants and health foods stores from Lihue to Hanalei."
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34 imagesDavid and Nancy Brown have been farming in the Newberg/St Paul, Oregon area since 1965. Their farm has been certified organic since 1991 with more than 80 acres. They sell produce to CSA members and wholesale to grocery stores.
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41 imagesLuscher Farm, once a dairy operation owned by Rudie and Esther Luscher, was purchased in 1990 by the City of Lake Oswego. The property and buildings are maintained as an agricultural example with the intent to interpret and educate interested visitors in local food and organic plant production. It offers many educational programs to the community, please visit their website for more information.
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6 galleriesOur Table Cooperative is a small scale, member owned farm in Sherwood, Oregon. They grow vegetables, blueberries, and flowers for their CSA members, farmers markets and for their farm store. They also offer other locally grown and made goods in their farm store.
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75 imagesPersephone Farm is located on a beautiful piece of land in Lebanon, Oregon. Elanor and Jeff are down-to-earth farmers that grows in accord with mother nature's cycles, meaning they don't use green houses to get extend the growing season. They've been farming organically and sustainably for over 27 years. Jeff's Allis-Charmers tractor has been converted and now runs on solar energy instead of fossil fuels. In addition to selling to restaurants and grocery stores, you can find them at farmers markets in Salem and Portland. Many of these photos were taken with film using my Hasselblad which seemed like a good fit to Persephone's analog philosophy of farming and living.
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105 imagesShawn photographed Sarahlee for the Whole Farm Management book published by Storey. Rainshadow Organics is a full-diet farm with dozens of varieties of certified organic vegetables, herbs, berries, flowers, pork, chicken, eggs, turkey, beef, and grains on 200 acres. They are located in Central Oregon and is family owned and operated. Sarahlee Lawrence grew up on the land and started Rainshadow in 2010.
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73 imagesCharlie and Paul Reppun have farmed wetland taro in the Waiheʻe and Waiāhole valleys of Oahu for forty years. The majority of their harvest is milled into poi on their farm by Paul, his wife Laurie, and the helping hands of family and friends; it is then sold within the community. They have sold poi and other products at the Peoples’ Open Market Kalihi for decades. Charlie is an active bee-keeper and has an established cacao orchard. Through their examples and mentorship, they have inspired many new farmers.
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22 imagesPhotos of Josh Volk when he farmed on Sauvie Island (near Portland, Oregon) as Slow Hand Farm.
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92 imagesPaulo and his family are the owners of Sunrise Organic Farm, formally part of the Springhill Farm, in Albany, Oregon.
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3 galleriesVibrant Valley is a small scale vegetable and flower farm on Sauvie Island, near Portland, Oregon. It is owned and operated by woman farmer Kara Gilbert.
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4 galleriesWild Roots Farm is a small-scale organic vegetable farm that specializes in Italian vegetables like radicchio, Fiolaro, and Fioletto. They are located in Corbett, Oregon, just outside of Portland and offer CSA boxes and fresh produce to restaurants.
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156 imagesYear round photos from a Master Gardener's vegetable garden in Portland, Oregon.