Fresh, Homegrown Flavor

At Portland Farmers' Market last Saturday:

Baby Carrots and Squash

At the Portland Farmers' Market on Saturday:

Farmageddon

This is the third in my series of photos of farmers who sell at the People's Food Co-op in Portland. Farmageddon is led by Neil Robinson, and currently has two locations: to the southwest of Portland, and about 15 miles to the northwest in Ridgefield, Washington, on land shared with Northwest Organic Farms. These photos were taken in Washington. Neil, along with coworkers Lisa and Matt, was mainly working on cleanup of the farm.

Neil Robinson

Neil and Matt doing cleanup

Neil dumping weeds into a compost pile

Long row of Savoy cabbages, with a lovely old barn in the background

Lisa transferring squash

Lisa picking lettuce

Matt mowing the grass along a fence with some impressive pieces of old trees

Flower Origami

In Powell's City of Books coffee shop.

MC Farms

This is the second in my project about farmers who sell at the People's Food Co-op in Portland. MC Farms is run by May Herr and her husband Chue Fue. They raise flowers, strawberries, and vegetables, which they sell at the People's Food Co-op Farmers' Market on Wednesdays and the Hillsboro Farmers' Market on Saturdays.

Boxing strawberries to truck them to the market.

Picking strawberries in the greenhouse

The grape tomatoes are as sweet as the strawberries.

Choosing and cutting the flowers

Gathering the cut flowers and putting them in buckets for the market

A field of flowers against the trees, reminiscent of a Monet painting

Audition

As Jay Maisel says, find a background and wait for something to happen...

Seen in the Neighborhood

Wandering around my neighborhood with a new camera I'm trying out...