A family-run urban farm in Pasadena offering a produce farm box, seasonal workshops, and homesteading education since 1985.
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Veganic urban farm growing microgreens, sprouts, greens, herbs, and seasonal fruit for the farmers market.
Huarache Farms is a veganic urban farm in Sierra Madre, founded by Michael Wood with a mission to support local and sustainable urban agriculture. The farm grows microgreens, sprouts, leafy greens, herbs, and seasonal fruit on a backyard scale across two farm sites. Produce is sold at the Atwater Village Farmers Market every Sunday. The farm operates as a collective of city dwellers who share an interest in small-scale gardening, cooking, and running, drawing inspiration from the Tarahumara people of Chihuahua, Mexico. Huarache Farms has also built and managed a custom online CSA platform supporting multiple local food makers and backyard farms in Los Angeles, though its current retail outlet is the weekly farmers market.
Huarache Farms grows on a backyard scale using hydroponics, water gardens, wicking beds, mist irrigation, tower gardens, and micro orchards. Shadehouses with shade cloth lower summer temperatures, letting leafy greens grow through the heat. Sierra Madre municipal water passes through carbon filters to remove chlorine byproducts before reaching crops. Fertilizers include a mineral salt hydroponic formula (Jack's Professional High Performance), Sea-90 solar-dehydrated ocean water, Maxicrop Kelp Extract, straw, alfalfa, wheat bran from local horse feed stores, and worm castings made from crop residues. No animal manure is used; the farm calls its approach veganic. Sprouts and microgreens grow in coconut coir with mist and are harvested within one to three weeks. Seeds come mainly from Johnny's Seeds and True Leaf Market. The farm orders certified organic varieties when available, saves select seeds, and avoids GMO seed.
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