Love Letter Farm
Farmer
About
Love Letter Farm is a one-woman operation, intensively growing seasonal vegetables and herbs using ecological practices. Producing on one-half acre just outside of Gresham, OR, Love Letter specializes in late season, heirloom, and locally sourced varieties. The farm is growing as part of a community of small farms at the Headwaters Incubator Farm project with the East Multnomah Water and Soil Conservation District (EMWSCD).
Love Letter Farm is committed to following the principles of regenerative agriculture in order to provide healthy, high-quality vegetables and herbs to ecologically conscious individuals and families in the Portland Metro Area. Love Letter Farm offers a CSA subscription to Portland-area residents and will be selling at Portland-area farmers markets.
Love Letter Farm is a love letter to the region, our community, the planet and the future.
Programs and Partners
Production Practices
Use Only Organic Materials No Till Low Till Non Gmo Cover Crops
Love Letter Farm firmly believes that healthy, nutrient dense, vegetables start with healthy soils and systems that encourage biodiversity. No-till, or low-disturbance farming helps to preserve the soil biology that supports healthy plants, increased yields, and reduced pests.
No-till or low-disturbance encompasses several different strategies to avoid tilling. Love Letter works at the hand/human scale using low impact tools to disturb the soil only when soil compaction makes it absolutely necessary. Feeding the soil and increasing the organic matter through compost, mulching, and cover cropping builds the soil in the long term, making sure the land continues to thrive for generations to come.
2/3 of the varieties grown at Love Letter come from local, open source and heirloom seed sources, promoting local economies and biological diversity. While not currently certified, Love Letter Farm follows an organic farming approach by sourcing organic certified seeds and materials and does not use pesticides or inorganic fertilizers.
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