get your hands dirty!
An Outdoor classroom to Commune, learn about sustainable living, aND nurture our souls in the joy of the outdoors.
Come Get your hands dirty!
The Salem Farm Market has partnered up with Kay McDonald to bring you the beautiful Community Gardens on S. Lincoln Ave. Here, we will continue to feed our community in a multitude of ways. Through the soil we find nutrients to feed our bodies. The garden is a place to commune and nurture our souls. A classroom to grow our knowledge of sustainable living and the joy of the outdoors.
Interested in gardening but don’t have the space? Looking for a place to meet new people while you garden? Then you’ve come to the right place!
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
Rust Belt Fibershed, Linen Project
Seed going down in April!
Find the Olla’s
ALL SEASON:
Learn about an ancient tradition used in the garden to help with water retention!
Meet Our Instructors
Melissa Thompson
Artist
Melissa Thompson, founder of Salem Farm Market and a local artist. After receiving her Art Degree in 2009, she put her footprint in Salem, OH in 2014. Creating several window installations in the community from a quaint bookstore on State St. to the flower shop down the road. Even larger scale murals for Salem & Damascus Friends Churches, as well as McCullough Park. She then taught a year of Art at Salem Public Schools. Currently continuing her art career while using things in nature as her Medium. Through her love of gardening, she has learned to intertwine her passions of botony and fiber arts. Melissa’s knowledge in bast fibers can be seen throughout the community garden as she tries to create awareness of creativity through a fiber garden and a natural loom to interact with.