About Us
Our Story
While we didn't intend to create an urban farm and CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program when we first started, a community grew around us organically (pun intended) and built The Black Radish with us.
We converted our small urban yard into a landscape of "no-dig" garden beds to feed our family of four with fresh fruit and veggies. We realized that we could grow a significant amount of produce in a relatively small space and began offering our abundance to friends and neighbors.
As the neighborhood watched with curiosity we began to develop meaningful relationships with our community and soon enough, people set about offering us use of their yards to manage and expand our market garden--we have incredible neighbors and we are forever grateful.
The bounty was so great that we could start offering shares to more and more neighbors, whether we use their yard or not. Any weekly excess (and there is always a lot) is donated to the Sanneh Foundation’s weekly food distribution program at Corcoran Park.
In 2025, we expanded to a nearby empty lot to double our farmable land and likely triple our production. This expansion will allow us to have more CSA members, supply produce to more local restaurants and have more produce for the Sanneh Foundation’s food distribution.
We relied on donations to raise the money to buy the plot, and on volunteers to break it in. Our name might be on the land but it belongs to the community who has made it possible: a place to gather and laugh, to learn, and to eat together.
Our Vision
We believe in this work, and we believe that a world that values the health of the earth and the wellbeing of each person is possible.
Our hope is to continue growing into a sustainable model that could be implemented in any urban community anywhere. Minnesota ranks as the 7th worst state for having accessible healthy food near people's homes.
Implementing a hyperlocal, economically sustainable model for seasonal food production in other areas could benefit so many. We strongly believe there needs to be both “micro” and “macro” solutions to how we produce food toward a shared vision of community and planetary health.