Use Agreement or Other: 12 Acres in Clackamas County/Lake Oswego

Description

After 20 years of successful Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) farming at Luscher Farm, Laura Masterson of 47^th Avenue Farm is ready to pass the reins and scale back operations in 2025. The Lake Oswego Parks & Recreation Department is looking for a dedicated CSA farmer to cultivate approximately 12 acres of our cherished organic land at Luscher Farm!

Luscher Farm has been a steadfast example of organic farming, nurturing the land and producing high-quality, sustainable crops. We’re looking for a mission-driven farmer to continue this legacy and provide our community with fresh, locally-grown produce year-round.

What We Offer:

• Approximately 12 acres of fertile, organic land ready for cultivation.
• Water, electricity, wash station, greenhouse and storage for farm equipment.
• Assistance in marketing the CSA program through City channels.
• A vibrant community and existing customer base eager to support and enjoy your produce!

What We’re Looking For:

• A committed CSA farmer who can provide fresh, organic produce for 60-100 families throughout the year.
• A CSA farmer with experience managing a CSA program and organic farming practices.
• Someone ready to engage with and enrich our community through their farming practices.

If you’re excited about continuing Luscher Farm’s tradition and have a vision for a thriving CSA program, we want to hear from you.

For more details and questions, please contact the Luscher Farm Program Supervisor Emily Liu at 503-675-3983 or eliu@lakeoswego.city.

To apply, please complete the interest form here: https://www.ci.oswego.or.us/formslf/CSAQ

For more information including on the Luscher Farm CSA program and maps of the property visit: https://www.ci.oswego.or.us/luscher/community-supported-agriculture-0

Owner’s Short Term Vision for the Property

Secure a new farmer to provide CSA vegetables to the community. Opportunity for additional use too if community CSA goals are met.

Owner’s Long Term Vision for the Property

Have a CSA farmer providing vegetables to the community.

Current Use

Land is currently being use to farm vegetables for a CSA and wholesale to restaurants.

Available Water / Irrigation

Well water. Water rights from April 1 to September 30.

Buildings and Structures Available for Farm Use

Luscher Barn for large farm equipment storage, dry storage and CSA pick up
Taylor barn for cold storage and equipment storage
Wash station
Greenhouse for seed starting
Electricity and Water provided by the City of Lake Oswego

Farm Equipment Available for Use, Sale or Lease

No farm equipment is available for use.

What are you doing as a landholder to ensure a safe and welcoming environment for everyone on your land and in your community?

Lake Oswego Park & Recreation (LOPR) acknowledges that it has the unique opportunity to impact people in our community at all stages of life. Through the Living Well in LO Powered by Parks & Recreation health and wellness initiative, LOPR strives to provide lessons that help our community learn, work together, and celebrate all people. LOPR provides activities that can be lifesaving and life-changing. For those in later phases of life, LOPR provides purpose, resources, and community. In order to provide inclusive opportunities for all, LOPR provides hundreds of acres of parks and natural areas for people to explore, exercise, learn from, heal by, and appreciate on their own and with families and friends. LOPR maintains natural areas that clean our community’s air and water, and make our city a more livable place.

In order to provide inclusive opportunities for all, LOPR analyzes its operations through a variety of perspectives that ensure it addresses the systemic inequities and barriers that limit its ability to truly achieve our mission “Lake Oswego Parks & Recreation provides excellence in building community, enriching lives, and caring for the urban and natural environment”. LOPR’s activities and services strive to include multiculturalism, all levels of ability, all ages, all identities and genders but the Parks & Recreation team (LOPR Team) also recognizes that we are not perfect. The LOPR Team examines (and re-examines) our attempts to understand how the LOPR Team is exclusive against minoritized groups in an effort to adjust the monocultural norms the organization supports. Diversity must be supported by goals aimed toward achieving equity and inclusion as well. These initiatives cannot be successful without each other.

DIVERSITY: Diversity is the inclusion of people of different races, cultures, ages, abilities, and various other identities within a group or organization.

EQUITY: Equity refers to fairness and justice and is different from equality. Whereas equality means providing the same to all, equity means recognizing that we do not all start from the same place and must acknowledge and make adjustments to imbalances.

INCLUSION: Inclusion is the act or practice of including and accommodating people who have historically been excluded.

The documents listed to the right include July 2022 Parks Board Presentation on DEI, LOPR's Workforce and Equal Opportunity, Human Services and DEI Policies and also other policies and procedures including scholarship policy, Inclusion policy and handbook and public accommodation for participation policy. Other documents represent DEI reference tools such as Definitions and Glossary, Ethnocentrism, Microaggressions, An Anti-Racism Self Assessment Tool, Teaching Tolerance Speak Up Pocket Guide and a University of Colorado-Boulder Campus Move Beyond By Stander tool.

For more City information on DEI, please visit: https://www.ci.oswego.or.us/community/diversity-equity-and-inclusion