Cultivating vegetables, creativity, and community
Photo: Marley Weedman
Located on the north side of Bend, Oregon, Authentique Artfarm is a market garden and art studio focused on sustainably growing the highest quality vegetables, creating art, and supporting the community.
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Owners Kyle and Michèle started Authentique Artfarm in 2023 with the goal of creating a small farm that would contribute to, and connect them to, their community, and which would serve as a source of inspiration for themselves and for others.
Throughout the season, the farm produces vegetables, seedlings, and flowers for sale and donation, is a working art studio, and hosts art workshops.
Our Farming Practices
We believe that everyone deserves quality, nutritious food. Whether for sale or for donation, we aim to ensure that every vegetable we provide is fresh, delicious and nutritious.
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We are ecologically-focused. There is no future without sustainable food production. For the health of ourselves, our customers, our neighbors, and the many inhabitants of our garden and our larger property, we follow organic, no-till practices.
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We see nature as something to work with, not battle against. To that end, we are continuously building rich, living soil and creating habitat within our garden to promote a thriving, balanced ecosystem that serves to maximize productivity and minimize the need to fight pests and diseases.
Art Workshops
Along with growing quality produce, we pride ourselves on our unique dual disciplinary approach that includes an emphasis on building creativity and community. Through a series of workshops led by our very own resident artist, Michèle, we invite members of our community to join us on the farm and create works inspired by the world around us.
Where to find our products
We pick our partners with care to ensure that our their missions align with ours. You can find our products through the following partners:
Find our vegetables, seedlings, and gift artwork on sale at Central Oregon Locavore, a year-round farmers market.
