Stone's Throw Urban Farm

About

Stone’s Throw Urban Farm is a new urban farm that is redefining local, sustainable food in the Twin Cities . We convert vacant lots in St. Paul and Minneapolis into beautiful, productive micro-farms and grow food for a CSA, the Mill City Farmers Market, and various local wholesale accounts. Stone’s Throw is working hard to strengthen our local food system.

If you are interested in supporting this groundbreaking urban farming venture by purchasing a CSA share, volunteering, or just staying in touch with farm happenings, please give us a call at (612) 454-0585 or
email us at stonesthrowurbanfarm AT gmail DOT com.

8 Comments to “About”

Terry Cohen
December 10, 2011 at 3:18 am

Do you have a list of the 2012 produce?

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- Stone's Throw Urban Farm
  December 10, 2011 at 9:35 pm
  
  Hi Terry!
  
  Thanks so much for inquiring! We’re still filling out the corners of our website, so we don’t have all our content in its rightful place quite yet. I just posted a new page with a detailed table of the crops we grow. You can follow the link the page here: http://stonesthrowurbanfarm.wordpress.com/about/what-we-grow/, or find it under the “About” tab, under “What we grow”.
  
  All the best,
  Emily
  CSA manager, Stone’s Throw Urban Farm
  
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Megan
February 26, 2012 at 10:33 pm

So, the vacant lots, do you talk to anyone about using them beforehand? Have you ever been kicked off a lot?

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- Stone's Throw Urban Farm
  February 29, 2012 at 9:31 pm
  
  Hi Megan,
  
  Yes, we always make sure to get permission to use lots before we start farming on them. We lease from a variety of landlords and have written agreements with all of them. We’ve never been kicked off a lot, although there are many lots that we haven’t been allowed to use for various reasons- inaccessible because they’re city owned in Mpls, concerns of landlords, unable to contact/find the landlord, etc.
  
  Thanks for your question!
  
  Have a lovely day,
  Emily
  
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Janis
April 3, 2012 at 4:12 pm

Hello, I am trying to figure out if all produce is organic? And I am confused if you deliver to the home or the drop sites. Thank you!

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nedhamson
April 13, 2012 at 2:48 pm

Have a connection with Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity? Thinking that their “partner” families might want to take advantage of your CSA – http://www.tchabitat.org/

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3dtelevison
April 13, 2012 at 5:51 pm

Wow, great project. I wish I could volunteer but to far away here in Blighty

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Eric Hart
April 15, 2012 at 4:48 pm

Tech tip – the image on your About page is HUGE (5.7 Mb) and takes for ever to load. Please reduce it and repost.

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