Urban Agriculture

The Last Organic Outpost nonprofit is a project based organization. Over the last several years Lowe's and CoreNet have contributed to vital components in farm operations. Lowe's has contributed two years in a row. The first year a team of Lowe's volunteers from area stores help clean the farm. Build a Community event area. Material donated by Lowe's built decks. Sifting tables. Cleaned areas for safety and site beautification. Due to these improvements the farm hosted Culinary competition … [Read more...] about Community Supporting local food Security

Gerald picked for the Central City Coop this morning. He does a outstanding job. He spent hours getting it right. I worked all day top dressing the beds. I told Kenly and Drea that the plants like to be tucked in. The plan is to reduce the watering By mulching heavy between the rows and the plants. Thanks to farm dirt there is lots of mulching material to work with. I was discussing with Tino best methods for growing. He was telling me what I was doing wouldn't work well. I explained that the … [Read more...] about Daily Activity log

Another wet week as today it's raining off and on. Yesterday there were times of heavy rain. I just walked the land and found quite a few cucumbers taking off. Also squash and especially peppers. With the mulching from CenterPoint tree companies everything is covered with 8" or more of shredded leaves. Soaking in the moisture and breaking down. The roadways have become composting areas staging a top dressing to plants to help deal with the hot weather evaporation. Exciting times working with … [Read more...] about Houston running a wet year

Urban farming in Houston's Inner city. Abundance is everywhere. After years of costly expenses. Purchasing soil from many sources. Mushroom compost from Madisonville. Sand from Cowboys. Rice Hulls from Texas Compost. Natural fertilizer from a host of retail stores. Wabash mainly. In March of 2013 after several folks had been introduced to wood chips from a documentary called Back to Eden. Mark Holt called CenterPoint tree services who cleared the trees from power lines. This began the experience … [Read more...] about Abundance

Today we planted seed. Lots of lemon cucumbers. Butternut squash. All the good seed. Had a dream a couple of weeks ago about planting.  The take away was plant heavy. Something could happen and it changes everything. Best to have a neighborhood food security plan. Growing food across the street. A quick walk or bicycle ride. A few varieties that work best. Squash. Peppers. Melons.  Cucumbers.  Fruit. Lately a few neighbors have started coming to farm. Folks from different regions of Africa.  Had … [Read more...] about A good day when seed is planted

A measurement of real value. It comes from hard work. Everyday making the lift no matter how small. A continous effort that strengthen the cause. It's bigger that anything imagined.  Bigger than life itself. It lies beyond the veil in the area of the mystery.  Where all things go when in service to the good that was intended. Today's work was working the gate. Telling stories. Leading the tour. Tomorrow Houston TV coming out for a interview. Billy Lawton with Prairie View A&M came by and … [Read more...] about A Measurement of Value

A staging area has been added to the farm's infrastructure. Previously seed trays were located throughout the farm. With the new station all seeding is centralized creating a opportunity to plant lots of seed. Recently watering has come from the clarifier where the zeolite filter is back flushed daily. The heavy dense waste from the pond settles in bottle of the tote and is used for watering. Presently a 5 gallon bucket is used to transport the nutrient rich resource. Plans are being made to … [Read more...] about Staging neighborhood food security