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Urban AG Solutions We want to help you reach your potential as a gardener. We specialize in rooftop gardens, microgreens, and other urban gardening innovations.

Our mission is to help create durable, resilient, edible cities where gardening is practiced and prized by all.

10/15/2026

Gotta recommend a tool I just discovered, the Root Slayer Nomad Shovel from Radius Garden, LLC . I love its combination of strength and lightness. The sharp points and teeth also just destroy sod and any toot mass.
I’m always reaching for this tool first for my fall soil prep, and the kids at the school where I garden love it too. I got mine Portland Nursery and a big shoutout to them for their long-standing support for school gardening.
Get your hands on a Nomad and you’ll be no-mad at even the toughest digging task!

10/11/2026

Next week, Sunday, October 18 (12 am PST) we interview Michael Ableman about his book Street Farm, detailing his 10+ years running a full-scale urban farm in the grittiest parts of Vancouver, BC. Does farming belong in a big city? Can downtrodden people’s lives be turned around by farming? Is this experiment repeatable? Ableman will dish on all this and more when we talk live as part of our monthly garden book group. Don’t miss it .Link in bio.

10/09/2026

Wow, I just tried skirret and it’s so good! This English medieval vegetable was displaced by the potato, but I’m going to make a push for its comeback, at least in my kitchen. It’s got a pleasant parsnips-potatoey taste and texture. As a perennial veg it’s easy to grow and propagate. I’m going to devote more energy to it next season and see if I can’t get even bigger roots.

Great event last night at the Portland Art Museum’s Mark Building featuring the selection of three design teams for a ma...
09/24/2026

Great event last night at the Portland Art Museum’s Mark Building featuring the selection of three design teams for a massive revisioning of Portland’s Waterfront Park area. About a thousand (!) people filled a room to meet the teams and hear how elements of their past work makes them qualified to undertake this task (teams were specifically prohibited from sharing specific ideas for Portland’s waterfront…that’s the next phase). Interplay did a great job facilitating the event, using Portland’s iconic cherry trees as a way to invite attendees’ feedback (pink blossom pinned to tree…what you want to see grow; red, spent blossom tossed to ground…what you want to see go; VERY CLEVER!). Two artists were creating a live mural with attendees’ feedback as the event went on. I love that in the face of fascism, economic strangulation, and climate challenges, Portland is finding ways to dream about connecting all of us more with nature and engaging in more robust, egalitarian civic life. Yay, Portland! Big shoutout to design portland for leading up this exciting vision and to the countless city leaders and staffers giving it energy and know-how. The room was buzzing with great energy!!!

09/19/2026

Tomorrow is Monthly Garden Book Group, and following on last year’s September offering we are continuing a back-to-school theme with a children’s book focus. We are excited to welcome Dr. Ja-Nay Brown-Wood who has authored over 30 children’s books, including a four-book series set in different gardens. Join Enoch Graham and myself tomorrow, Sept 20, at 11am PST as we talk with Dr. Brown-Wood about kids, learning, gardening, and books. Link in bio.

09/16/2026

On track to get over 100 Ping Tung Long eggplant from these 4 plants, each growing in a bag of potting soil. This is container gardening at its most minimal and, by extension, its most flexible. You can literally grow anywhere!

08/31/2026

Our potting-soil-bag container experiments continue. This time we’re going horizontal with lettuce. Still using that premium EB Stone 420 mix. Drain holes poked in the bottom of the bag also allow water to wick up from the shallow pan reservoir. Stay tuned for results.

08/28/2026

Who’s in to join me for 10 (minimum!) dandelion leaves per day? Let’s do this and get into a bitter (better!) habit!

08/26/2026

Meet Scott Howard, sculptor, designer, natural builder. Last spring he gave some beautiful lessons to our students on the basics of making cob, and then we began a re-design of some benches he made for us almost 20 years ago (when he and I first met!). Then over the summer he transformed from cob slinger to cob sculptor, and we have his beautiful work as a lasting joy. Scott truly is one of the earth heroes we need in these times, bringing not only the techniques of natural building but also artistry and beauty to the mix. Like his stuff, reach out him Scott Howard .

08/21/2026

Eggplants are POPPING OFF in our potting soil planting bag experiment on the rooftop of Noble Rot !
I’ve already taken around 25; here I count 42(!!!) currently on the plants, AND this is just the beginning of the harvest season. Lacking growing space? Not anymore. You, too, can grow scores of eggplant from a single bag of potting soil (especially if it’s Recipe 420 Potting Soil ) with good fertilization and supplemental feeding.

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5404 NE Mallory Avenue
Portland, OR
97211

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