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Farmers seeking space for market garden in Portland Metro

 
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Hello lovely PNW Permies!

My friend and I are experienced organic vegetable growers and PDC holders and we are looking for some space in or around Portland to establish a small intensive market garden. We have our eyes on the foothills to the east but we are open to anything! We are looking for space of between 1/2 and 1 acre to do some farmscaping and establish our own business. While annual vegetable production is often disregarded as "not permaculture" (read that in Paul's voice), we are very interested in the intersection of permaculture principles (design, process, energy flow) and techniques (keyline, deep mulch, etc.) with commercial vegetable and flower production.

We've pretty well exhausted the iFarm resource so I thought I'd put a line out here to see if anyone has leads on someone with a little extra land that might be willing to lend some space to some passionate young farmers. We're open to cash lease, work trade, veggie barter, you name it!

Cheers!

Ryan
 
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Are you looking for this growing season? It's kinda late…

I may have something available. If you don't mind, send me a PM, with a little more about your ideas. And also what length of time we're talking?

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