Flicker Community Farm

Flicker Community Farm Family Farming Cooperative using land held in Trust by local family. Fairview weather is very warm and bumper crops resulted with moderate effort. Still growing!

The Coos Community Farm Project held meetings in 2008-09 about growing food for ourselves and families with children in Coos County. Many people were interested in findimg local sources for food and gardening enthusiests were challenged to think large-scale. Land and water to use came through luck when a local land owner, David Christian, lended 5000 square feet of space on his Middle Creek, Fairv

iew Property. We amended soil, planted, watered, waited and harvested A LOT of produce with a dozen or so hands-on members helping throuout the season. We found out that farming was the way to go for a family to feed themselves year-round and teach their children where their food comes from. Farming under a landlord was difficult when ideology clashed and the land wasn't secured as truly ours. We needed another space for the 2010 season and Linda Dominick of Coquille came to one of our meetings prior to Middle Creek and had offered our group the Garden Valley property. We had chosen Middle Creek because the fencing and water system was in place. Garden Valley was a blank slate. A 4 acre field gone to seed for years and years. Weeds, critters, elk, you name it -it was there. By January 2010 ,w e have a lease created and agreed with the owners and ourselves and a water rights document - we were ready. PT 2 to come -To be continued...
2021 - fencing and raised beds soon. Blackberry removal took last year and will continue this year.

01/26/2023

Groans...

04/22/2021

🤷🏻‍♀️💜🤷🏻‍♀️

Here’s the last year in pictures. Things we did. Things we thought about. ❤️
04/22/2021

Here’s the last year in pictures. Things we did. Things we thought about. ❤️

This Spring and Summer we are transitioning to a raised bed system and general cleanup, new fencing, new water line, get...
04/22/2021

This Spring and Summer we are transitioning to a raised bed system and general cleanup, new fencing, new water line, get all the work done this year before garlic hopefully gets planted in fall. If we get enough work die by July, Fall crops could be possible. Chugging ahead.

Coos county does grow watermelon! Sugar babies. These were planted late. We will save the seeds for potential land race ...
09/21/2020

Coos county does grow watermelon! Sugar babies. These were planted late. We will save the seeds for potential land race supply. Adapted to our climate

09/21/2020
09/21/2020
04/19/2020

Taking it back. It been a 1 1/2 years since we’ve last planted

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Garden Valley
Coquille, OR
97423

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+15412604899

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