What is the Urban

Farm Collective?

We are:

A grassroots organization formed as a result of the Tin Shed garden café’s fervent desire to build a closer relationship with their food and their neighbors. We liked the word collective as it best reflects the spirit of the project…a collection of neighbors with a common interest in nutritious, delicious food grown in a way that shows respect for the planet. With the harvest, we will come together and share in the bounty as neighbors and now as FARMERS!

How it works:

Local folks, like you and me, grow food sustainably in our own backyards or volunteer as "dirty-hands" to grow food in the backyard of a fellow member of Urban Farm Collective. Come harvest time, collective members bring their harvest to the Wednesday farmers market at the Tin Shed garden café. The Tin Shed has made prior arrangements to purchase an agreed upon variety and quantity of food from the collective at a fair price. Ten percent of all sales help fund the administrative costs of the collective - such as soil testing. The remaining 90% of proceeds are shared among the collective. Collective participants receive one share for every 100sq ft of garden space provided and for every 15 hours of service they provide. Collective participants are also able to barter or sell remaining produce with the general public at the weekly market.

How to get involved:

It is most definitely NOT too late to get involved! It’s not too late to become a backyard grower. And we can always use hands for our lands.

We need a sponsor to help us purchase t-shirts and re-usable grocery bags.

You can contact us at: urbanfarmcollective@gmail.com

Hello UFC Friends and Participants!!!

The Urban Farm Collective is hibernating and regrouping

for the winter season..

But stay tuned for news and updates, we are planning on having another wonderful summer of bumpershoot proportions!

The Urban Farm Collective Farmers Market

Welcomes you to join us

For our last two markets @ the Tin Shed Garden Cafe

Wednesday 4pm to 7pm

1438 NE Alberta Street