Thimbleberry Collaborative Farm

We have a Community Farm Day coming up on July 27, 10am-2pm! Join us for a veggie printing activity, some farm-fresh snacks, lawn games, and more. We’ll be giving farm tours and our Farm Operations Manager, Drew, will be onsite if you have any specific farming questions! Community Farm Days are free for everyone. Sign up link is in our bio. Looking forward to seeing you there! 🌱

…how you know that summer has officially arrived!!!

We are excited to announce that The Skrimps will be playing at our Harvest Celebration at the farm this year!

Tickets are on sale now at the link in bio, so don't miss your chance to see The Skrimps live on the farm while enjoying some delicious food vendors and cold beverages 🎶

Join us on Sunday, August 4th, 1pm - 4pm, for a workshop called “All About Herbs.” We’ll take a tour of all the herbs growing on the farm, do a journaling/ drawing activity, and make some take-home sun tea packets. Then we will harvest, cook, and eat a delicious vegetarian, farm-fresh, herb-forward meal together. Can’t wait to see you there!! Sign-up link is in our bio.

Our tomatoes are darn near 6 feet tall (and we sampled the first ripe one a few days ago)! Our potatoes are flowering and our onions are bulbing up. Happy 4th of July!

There are only 6 tickets left for our dinner at on July 13th ! You won't want to miss this beautiful farm-to-table meal with gorgeous local wines 🍷

Ticket sales close on Friday, so buy yours now or forever have FOMO 😉

We had an AMAZING group of volunteers from the merchandise team at join us at the farm last Thursday! They were super hardworking, helping us add a layer of wood chips to our chicken coop, weeding the whole learning garden + some row crops, and harvesting and cleaning a ton of garlic! Thank you so much, New Seasons merchandise crew!! You’re welcome back anytime 😉

We were thrilled to host Commissioner Lori Stegmann and her Director of Planning and Policy, Layan, at the farm a couple weeks ago! We had a great time wandering through the farm, talking about Thimbleberry’s work, and dreaming up possibilities together. We look forward to crossing paths again soon! 🌱

We had the opportunity to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of last weekend! The entire space is so dreamy, from the beautiful gardens and vineyard to the artfully decorated bed and breakfast.

We cannot wait to share this space with you on July 13th for our Mid-Summer Soiree. There are still a few tickets left, but sales will be closing July 5th, so grab yours now if you don't want to miss out! You can buy your tickets at the link in our bio 🎟️

Our Thai Fire hard neck garlic is ready to be harvested and cured! It is also delicious fresh, and even more pungent and spicy. We’ll save a quarter or so of the harvest for next year’s crop, planting early in the fall for another beautiful harvest.

We have bittersweet news to share! Jonathan, our beloved Education Programs Manager, is moving on to a new adventure and we are hiring to fill his position. He will be sorely missed but we are excited for him and his next chapter, and we are looking forward to welcoming someone new to the Thimbleberry team!

If you love gardening and working with kids, take a look at the position description linked in our bio. Please share widely! We are aiming to fill the position within the next month or so.

Yesterday we lost one of our beloved hens Bok Choy.

Last week she started showing signs of illness and we discovered she had "water belly", a build up of fluid in her abdomen. We were able to make her comfortable in her last days, but the underlying condition progressed quickly and she passed yesterday after a warm bath and snuggles.

Bok Choy was one of our more feisty chickens, and even as a young chick she would lead the other chickens on escapades around the farm. Before building their current run, we would regularly find her outside the run exploring the farm and trying to convince the others to join her. Her rebellious spirit will be missed 💛

Hey all - we’ve got quite a bit of leftover potato seed, free for the taking! Yukon gold, Sangria reds, and a russet variety. Come on by for our volunteer day tomorrow from 9am-noon, stop by our Community Farm Day on June 1st, or send us a message and we can find a time for you to stop by and grab some! These need to go in the ground ASAP!

Our namesake is blooming in our native plant area at the farm!

Thimbleberries are native to the Pacific Northwest and are named so because of their hollow core and resemblance to a thimble. This plant has many uses including making tea from the leaves, eating the edible berries and shoots, and, if you're in a pinch, the leaves can be used as "nature's toilet paper".

You can come see this plant for yourselves at our Community Farm Day this Saturday June 1st from 10am-2pm!

🏐 👩‍🌾🏓🤸 In honor of International Children’s Day, our next Community Farm Day on June 1 will be a Field Day! Just like the last day of school, when everyone gets to play outside all day, we’ll have a bunch of games and contests ready for you, including volleyball, horse shoes, corn hole, ping pong, hula hoop, egg-spoon racing, minute-to-win-it games, and more! There will be something for everyone, so all ages are welcome and, as always for Community Farm Days, it’s free! You can also take a farm tour with us, try out our gnome scavenger hunt, enjoy some farm-fresh snacks, and bring your own picnic to enjoy at the farm, too. Hope to see you there!

Stop by anytime June 1, 10am-2pm, at 29089 SE Kelso Rd., Boring, OR 97009. Sign-up link is in our bio (it’s not required, but it helps us get a sense of how many people to prepare snacks for!). ☀️

Thanks to a generous donation from the Reynolds Transition Program we will have even more starts to give away tonight at ! The students grew these herbs and veggies from seed for their plant sale this season. We will have basil, peppers, tomatoes, squash and more available 🫑🌶️🍅

Thank you for sharing with the community 💚

This Thursday is our Seeds and Starts swap event at in Gresham! We will be there from 5-8 with seeds and all these plant babies for you to take home 🌱 Feel free to bring any extras from your garden to share with the community.

What seeds are you hoping for at the swap?

Squinting into the fleeting sun yesterday as we pruned and clipped our tomatoes onto our trellis. We’re trying a single leader pruning this year, hoping to get a nice crop extending into late fall. 🤞

We are at the Happy Valley with free seeds today until 1!

Through 05/21 New Seasons will be matching all donations made during check out to the Nourish Our Neighbors program. We are so grateful to be one of the ten nonprofit organizations chosen for this program and honored to be included with the other 9 organizations fighting hunger locally 🍎🥕

Our orchard is setting fruit 🍎🍐🍒

We can't wait for orchard harvests of apples, pears, plums and cherries to begin.

We are happy to announce that Thimbleberry was chosen as one of ten Nourish Our Neighbors organizations! This means we will be receiving funds from donations made during check out at all New Seasons locations through next April 🎉

As an added bonus, New Seasons will be matching all donations made starting today and going through the 21st. This is a great way to double the impact of your donation!

Thank you to for your commitment to improving food access locally 🥕🥬🍅

We had a great Community Farm Day and Stanford Beyond the Farm Day on Saturday despite the rain! Our dedicated Stanford friends shoveled, wheelbarrowed, and spread wood chips in our learning garden. Plus some old and new friends stopped by the farm to do a flower bouquet scavenger hunt activity and a painting project! Can’t wait for our next Community Farm Day, when we’ll hopefully have some ☀️.

Reminder that we have weekly volunteer days on Wednesdays, 9am-12pm! Tomorrow we’ll be harvesting turnips, doing some farm clean-up, painting a table with rainbow colors, and more! 🌈 Hope to see you there. Sign up link is in our bio 🌱

Join us this Saturday, 10am-2pm, for our next Community Farm Day! We’ll have a family-friendly activity of crafting with flowers, as well as some first-come, first serve snacks. As always, you’re welcome to do our gnome scavenger hunt and bring your own picnic!

May 4 is also Stanford’s Beyond the Farm Day (an annual community service day), so we’ll have some alumni volunteering at the farm, too. Everyone is welcome to join in and get their hands dirty. We recommend bringing closed toed shoes and rain jackets, but we can provide gloves, tools, and water!

Hope to see you there 🌱 sign up with the link in our bio!

A few weeks ago, we hosted students from Good Shepherd for a fun field trip all about plant parts and soil health! Some of the highlights of the day were planting starts in our learning garden with Juliette, doing a soil launch test with Jonathan, testing our plant part ID and culinary skills with Amanda, touring the farm with farmer Drew, and eating a delicious veggie stir fry noodle dish (thanks, Michelle!) together at the picnic tables. We can’t wait to have this group back at the farm again soon!

If you’re interested in scheduling a field trip with us, send us a DM or check out our website! Link in bio. 🌱

Scenes from the farm this week 📷

1. Red flowering currant in full bloom in our Learning Garden.
2. Our first flowers on our strawberry plants in the Learning Garden raised beds.
3. A very photogenic chicken named Cutlet.
4. Buds on our apple trees in our recently refurbished orchard.
5. Spinach and peas growing in our new high tunnel.
6. Volunteers and staff planting leeks during our volunteer day this week!

Spring is spring-ing! Come volunteer with us tomorrow, Wednesday April 10th from 9-Noon. We’ll be transplanting leeks, seeding flowers, and enjoying the Spring sun!

Meet Paul, our 2024 apprentice from Rogue Farm Corps! Paul brings a wealth of experience ranging from food service to metal fabrication. He’s hit the ground running with us this past week at Thimbleberry, diving into everything from transplanting, irrigation, and weeding with dedication. Paul will be with us through the end of the season, thanks to our partnership with Wallace Medical Concern in Rockwood.

Reminder!! Join us for our first Community Farm Day of 2024! Thimbleberry’s Community Farm Days are a fun, unstructured time for you and your friends/ family to explore the farm, meet our staff, hang out with our chickens, play lawn games, do some farmy activities, have a picnic, and more!

On April 6, 10am-2pm, we will have a seed swap! All seeds are free. Bring what you have, take what you need. It’s ok if you don’t have seeds to trade, you can still come grab some seeds! We’ll have some light snacks to share on a first come, first served basis. You are welcome to bring your own picnic or snacks to share, too!

Please use the link in our bio to sign up beforehand so we can make sure to have enough snacks and activities available for everyone. Signing up is not required but greatly appreciated 🙂. Thanks!

Join us tomorrow 9-noon for a volunteer day! We’ll be transplanting some of our first spring crops, among other fun tasks! Check out these purple sprouting broccoli doing their thing.