I found my calling growing veggies in urban spaces.

I helped get community supported farming to Portland when I ran Urban Bounty Farm in the 1990s; late in that decade I co-founded Zenger Farm, a still-thriving urban agricultural center; in the early 2000s, I did a volunteer stint with my family in Brazil, where I lost many a garden battle to mole crickets and leaf-cutter ants; upon returning to the United States I got a Masters of Education focusing on…..you guessed it, gardening!

Since 2006 I’ve tended a rooftop vegetable garden at the Portland restaurant called Noble Rot, and for the past couple years I grew and sold microgreens to the best of Portland’s restaurants, though Covid readjusted that landscape, and now I grow microgreens primarily for my own consumption.

For 15 years I’ve also taught hundreds of children gardening, cooking, and landscaping at Franciscan Montessori Earth School, where I am Garden Specialist. I’ve written about gardening, consulted on gardening, experimented with gardening. I practically eat, sleep and breath the stuff (well, I guess I do actually eat it!).

Now with the help of my talented collaborator Anne Parmeter, I am so excited to bring you my decades of experience and innovation in my first-ever online garden course.

Marc Boucher-Colbert

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