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Welcome to Dancing Roots Farm

We are a small family farm offering high quality, fresh produce to households and individuals through our membership (or CSA) program. We also supply a number of local restaurants in the Portland area. We grow over 100 varieties of vegetables, herbs, fruit and flowers all chosen for their flavor, nutrition, genetic diversity and beauty.

work party at Dancing Roots Farm

Our kid-friendly farm is on 10 beautiful acres above the Sandy River, adjacent to Dabney State Park. We are 18 miles east of Portland, south of I-84. To the locals, this area is known as Springdale. In addition to our fields, we have a few acres of woods, tons of blackberries, and lots of refuge for songbirds and wildlife.

We bought the farm in the fall of 2002 and spent most of 2003 fixing up the old farmhouse. The fields had been fallow for over 30 years, and now our plans call for creating an ecologically sound and productive working farm. Our vision includes orchards and grapes, year round produce, educational programs, on-farm composting, and farm animals such as sheep, ducks, and bees!

We love our little farm and do everything possible to treat our land gently and with reverence. We use practices such as crop rotations, natural amendments, cover crops, drip irrigation, and provide ample habitat for beneficial insects, bugs and birds. We would never use any kind of toxic pesticides or synthetic, oil-based fertilizers.