With three years of data collection, we're proud, thrilled, and excited to share our 2022 outcomes that are framed in our newly adopted strategic plan for 2023-2025.
Read More2021 was a BIG year for our small nonprofit urban Farm, thanks to the support of SO many members of our community! See just how much of an impact we’ve made…
Read MoreWithout ruffling any feathers (pun intended), Raleigh City Farm has introduced livestock to the site with the support of the Hen Institute.
Read MoreRead a reflection from co-chair, Jamie Ousterout, on 10 years of Raleigh City Farm and how we turned a vacant lot into a flourishing, one-acre non-profit urban farm.
Read MoreAs we welcome the new year with more clarity, hope and resilience, we wanted to take a moment to review all that we accomplished during a memorable year of change, reckoning and upheaval in our backyards and around the world.
Read MoreIn seven weeks, we’ve seen major transformations all over the site, beginning with our high tunnel that was cleared out (by volunteers) ripped off (by Mother Nature), re-installed (with more volunteers) and planted (by volunteers). Did we mention how much we love and appreciate our volunteers? Well, we do.
Read MoreWe want to share some exciting news about a “New Season of Stewardship” at Raleigh City Farm, which will increase the impact of our mission.
Read MoreWe want to carve out some time to share all we're grateful for in 2019. We've had so many infrastructure projects, made possible by our generous supporters!
Read MoreIf you've been by the farm lately, you may have noticed a special project underway. We've partnered with NC State University to be part of a pollinator project study. Raleigh City Farm is hosting contained vegetables and two "bee hotels" that will be monitored over the course of two growing seasons.
Read MoreNot a cloud in the sky, a freshly painted mural adorning our water cistern, the smell of delicious fried egg tacos, mimosas being poured, our amazing vendors and event partners doing what they do best…
Read MoreSpring is here and there is a multitude of things to do sprouting up here, there and everywhere in Raleigh. It’s this time of year when the whole city seems to wake up out of a winter spent hibernating…
Read MoreOn a cold, bright morning in early January, I sat across from Elvin Birth in the library of the Murphey School Apartments, where he lives.
Read MoreAs we close out our 7th season of growth, we want to offer heartfelt thanks to YOU and the generous community of supporters who have “dug in” and supported our high production, one-acre urban farm.
Read MoreChange is in the air. Can you feel it? It’s like a cool breeze blowing through, rippling leaves, as if something invisible were on the move and had gently jostled the world around it. We crave stillness sometimes, but movement is good, too, and healthy. Where there’s growth, there’s movement.
Read MoreIf a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s a video worth? At Raleigh City Farm, so much of our mission and our message have to do with a physical place—a place where food is grown, where people can meet their local farmer, where encounters with agriculture happen easily…
Read MoreWas it all a dream? The sun was sinking low in the fall sky, there was very, very good wine flowing, and there was a pro culinary team cooking giant Tomahawk ribeyes just for us over an open flame…
Read MoreHappy fall, friends! Yep, we said it and that makes it official. Fall is here and while it might still feel like a sauna out there, that crisp air is waiting in the wings. Or, we hope it is. It must be, right? Anyyyyy day now…
Read MoreChase Werner and Matt Spitzer want to demystify hemp. Walking through one of their greenhouses last week at Triangle Hemp, a hemp nursery they recently founded in Durham that primarily sells rooted cuttings to farmers interested in getting into the hemp business…
Read MoreThat’s a wrap! Our 6th Bearthday has come and gone but the memories of a good time linger. The presence of 300!of you at our morning bazaar and evening concert was the greatest present, and the $9k we raised to support our mission was the icing on our Bearthday cupcakes.
Read MoreHey. What are you doing on Saturday, April 21? Not sure, you say, but if there’s something super cool happening at Raleigh City Farm, we’ll be there! Great answer, guys!
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