About The Suburb Farm
Who are we?
We are a Midwestern family of 6 who live in a mid-century ranch house in the suburbs.
is the writer & photographer here. does most of the manual labor & beekeeping. We have professional careers in separate fields, so this unconventional suburban homestead is our joint effort. We have 4 “kids”— now young adults/ adolescents— who live at home. Plus a dog and 2 axolotls.What is a suburb farm?
You don’t need acreage in the country to grow food. We believe that food production & preservation can be done in pots on an apartment balcony, in allotments & community gardens, & in a corner of the family yard. We’re fortunate to have a spacious lot & open-minded neighbors, as we replace our manicured lawn with native plants & edible crops.
Since 2016 we’ve been transforming our backyard and front lawn into a micro-farm, where we grow vegetables, fruit, and mushrooms. We’re relearning skills that our great-grandparents knew well: growing and preserving food, keeping bees, creatively making do with what we have, sharing our bounty to build community, and reconnecting with the Earth and the seasons.
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Be part of a community of people who are interested in growing & preserving food. There are so many of us out there; let’s get to know each other!
…and some things that should not have been forgotten were lost.
(Galadriel, J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring”)
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
(Wendell Berry)
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