City Farm SLO

At City Farm we use the word "regenerative" repeatedly - to describe our farm, our food, and our methods. But how do we define regenerative? The word 'regenerate' itself means to grow, create, or bring something back to life, health, or an original state -- in other words, leaving something better than we found it. Ask most people what organic means and you will get a list of things that are not there. No synthetic pesticides. No synthetic fertilizers. That matters, it is a real standard, and...

Last week, a team of six women from our City Farm community took on a new challenge: processing the meat birds that we raised. Let’s start with “The Why”: Why raise meat chickens? We’ve been pasture-raising meat birds since the Fall of 2025 to deepen our commitment to regenerative farming, diversify revenue streams to support our nonprofit, and master a new skill to pass on to our students, interns, volunteers, and beginning farmers. Alongside challenging lessons-learned, the initiative has...

Our monthly newsletter has housed some of our deeper storytelling, but lately, month after month, we've found ourselves sparing details, cutting paragraphs, and leaving things unsaid. We hope this will change that... City Farm SLO is a working regenerative farm, but we are also an educational farm, putting us in a unique position to share with our local community and the world what we know, what we are experimenting with, and what we learn. This blog will serve as a space for deeper...