farming artist Nolan of Wealth Underground Farm reveals the colorful speckled lettuce coming up under crop covers in the still chilly hills of north Portland

…hosted a conversation about art & agriculture this afternoon, with Danny Percich, Tim Donovan, Harrell Fletcher, and myself, as part of the Open Engagement conference, on their Portland adjacent small CSA organic farm – which some of the of the hardcore student bikers arrived at on two wheels up a steep hill – and what a pleasure to spend time in this little Pacific Northwest nirvana of farming in the scenic hilly woods next to the city, so well known for it’s fixation on slow local organic radical foody bikey composty feministy ethos that there is even a TV show about it called Portlandia – which happened to film the farm scene at Wealth Underground in the episode where the couple ordering dinner at a restaurant is concerned about how local their food is and goes to inspect the home of the chicken named Colin that they are planning on eating.