Hello Seward!
My name is Stefan Meyer, otherwise referred to as Farmer Stefan :) I wanted
to take a brief second to introduce myself and my work. I am a born and
raised Minnesota farmer who has taken up digging in the dirt as a personal
life mission. I grew up on a family farm in SW Minnesota where I was
exposed to a more conventional form of agriculture. I later moved out to
the Pacific Northwest, where I lived for 11 years and spent time studying
and practicing Permaculture, Ecological Agriculture, Environmental Sciences,
Organic Gardening/Farming Practices and an avid composter!
Upon returning to my native Minnesota last year, I have taken this life time
of experience in dirt digging, and begun to apply it to the urban
agriculture movement afoot here in the Twin Cities area. I am in my 2nd
year of working with Backyard Harvest (backyardharvest.wordpress.com), a
program of the Permaculture Research Institute-Cold Climate (
www.pricoldclimate.org), that installs and maintains edibly divine vegetable
gardens for the residents of Minneapolis/St. Paul.
As well, I have been working with Seward Redesign over the last year, to
start up an urban farm endeavor right here in the Seward Neighborhood.
Growing Lots Urban Farm (www.growinglots.blogspot.com) has officially been
born, and is in the process of installation. We are running the farmer as a
market and CSA farm, and selling 2010 shares right NOW!! (
<email obscured>) <--- shameless self-promotion! I encourage you to
contact me with any questions you have, desires to lend a helping hand, or
to buy a share.. Once the farm is up and running, there will be ongoing
opportunities to visit and tour the farm too....
I am blessed to be here in this great city, doing great work, and look
forward to being more involved in the greater Longfellow Neighborhood.
sun-filled blessings,
Stefan
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Welcome, Stefan!
I've purchased CSA shares over the years, but as a busy urbanite I had
despaired of ever really connecting to one of the farms.
I also used to work for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, which
has worked for over three decades to encourage local self-reliance in
urban areas.
So it just pleases me to no end to see what you and Redesign are
undertaking. I can't wait to bring my son to visit and watch the farm
develop.
Please keep the list, and Seward Profile http://sewardprofile.posterous.com/
, updated on your progress!
Becca Vargo Daggett
(forum co-manager, with Peter Fleck)
Today Farmer Stefan and I set up the Urban Farmer of Seward blog where he
will update the community about our Growing Lots Urban Farm. You can reach
it at http://urbanfarmerseward.posterous.com.
It's a sister of our Seward Profile news site. We will let you know about
updates here in the Forum and we will also send update notices to our
SewardTweets Twitter account.
http://twitter.com/sewardtweets
I'm very excited about the potential for this blog and so is Stefan. It's
also open to any community members commenting or sending us posts and
pictures. If you want to send pictures or write something (beyond a comment)
send me an email and I'll send you details on the process. (It's really easy
and is done completely with an email.)
Peter
Seward Neighbors Forum Co-Manager
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On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Stefan Meyer <email obscured>> wrote:
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>
> Hello Seward!
>
> My name is Stefan Meyer, otherwise referred to as Farmer Stefan :) I
> wanted
> to take a brief second to introduce myself and my work. I am a born and
> raised Minnesota farmer who has taken up digging in the dirt as a personal
> life mission. I grew up on a family farm in SW Minnesota where I was
> exposed to a more conventional form of agriculture. I later moved out to
> the Pacific Northwest, where I lived for 11 years and spent time studying
> and practicing Permaculture, Ecological Agriculture, Environmental
> Sciences,
> Organic Gardening/Farming Practices and an avid composter!
>
> Upon returning to my native Minnesota last year, I have taken this life
> time
> of experience in dirt digging, and begun to apply it to the urban
> agriculture movement afoot here in the Twin Cities area. I am in my 2nd
> year of working with Backyard Harvest (backyardharvest.wordpress.com), a
> program of the Permaculture Research Institute-Cold Climate (
> www.pricoldclimate.org), that installs and maintains edibly divine
> vegetable
> gardens for the residents of Minneapolis/St. Paul.
>
> As well, I have been working with Seward Redesign over the last year, to
> start up an urban farm endeavor right here in the Seward Neighborhood.
> Growing Lots Urban Farm (www.growinglots.blogspot.com) has officially been
> born, and is in the process of installation. We are running the farmer as
> a
> market and CSA farm, and selling 2010 shares right NOW!! (
> <email obscured>) <--- shameless self-promotion! I encourage you to
> contact me with any questions you have, desires to lend a helping hand, or
> to buy a share.. Once the farm is up and running, there will be ongoing
> opportunities to visit and tour the farm too....
>
> I am blessed to be here in this great city, doing great work, and look
> forward to being more involved in the greater Longfellow Neighborhood.
>
> sun-filled blessings,
> Stefan
>
>
>
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> inevitable..." JFK
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