city roots farm.

City Roots is one of our favorite vendors at the farmer’s market, and the folks there invited us to bring the kids out to explore, so this morning my cousin Liz and I met up to take a look around.

Since it’s a city farm (in the Rosewood neighborhood) it’s small: maybe two acres?  After watching so many eye-opening documentaries like Food, Inc. and reading books like American Wasteland, I find myself with an almost physical hunger to see plants and livestock that are strong and happy — rather than just mass-produced and mowed down for our ravenous American consumerism.

So this morning made me happy.  The sun was bright and the air fresh and crisp, the soil rich and the colors vivid.  The green houses were filled with rows upon rows of micro-greens.  The greenhouse manager gave me some great tips for our own tiny micro-green operation.

And the chickens in the back corner of the farm had a spacious clean coop and happily nosed around the mulch, pausing to look at us every now and then.

City Roots farm loves Columbia and uses their space and their influence to be kind to our city’s resources.  I want to support them in that endeavor.  And I’m inspired for us to keep expanding our own little urban homestead.