We are so honored to receive this award from Slow Food Greater Olympia! Good food means so much to us, for ourselves and our community ❤ We appreciate the recognition!

Join us in congratulating Urban Futures Farm on their Snail of Approval award!

Urban Futures Farm, located in Olympia, is an ecologically grounded, diversified, solar-powered farm dedicated to growing the highest quality food possible for their immediate neighbors through a CSA program and on-site farm stand.

We’re impressed with Urban Futures Farm’s focus on growing delicious, nutrient-dense food by building good soil and practicing crop rotations and integrated pest management. Over time, they have built robust agricultural soil through the use of cover crops, green manures, quality compost, and targeted application of essential micro and macro nutrients. Want to learn how to build amazing soil? They host workshops led by TJ Johnson, their full-time farmer and former food and agricultural policy visiting faculty at The Evergreen State College.

The farm has grown various Ark of Taste varieties of fruits and vegetables, including Rockwell beans, Speckled Trout lettuce, Ozette potatoes, Incillium garlic, and more. They also grow a wide variety of vegetable and herb plant starts each spring, and produce pastured eggs.

The farm has cultivated deep community connections. They donate food to the Thurston County Food Bank and to Senior Services for South Sound, host interns and WWOOFers on the farm, and organize a yearly music festival on the property that raises funds for farmland preservation.

We’re delighted to welcome you to the 2025 Snail of Approval cohort, Urban Futures Farm! We’ll see you there.

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