A goal coming to life

Tina has been growing food her whole life — for her family, and with her family. Through 23 years as a military household, posting after posting, she built a garden at every home and left detailed planting guides behind for the next family. The rule was simple: leave it better than you found it.

In September 2025, that rule got 10 acres of its own.

Becoming a WSU Master Gardener volunteer in 2019 showed Tina how much her community wanted fresh, local food — and how hard it was to find. Spokane Community College’s Small Farm Production degree and Greenhouse Management certificate turned a backyard garden’s worth of ambition into a farm’s worth of skill. She runs every part of the growing: seed starting, planting, harvest.

Jim, her husband, is a veteran with 25 years of project management and a construction background. He builds what the farm needs and keeps the business side running.

Tina reading a cookbook aloud to freshly planted garlic beds — The first garlic got a bedtime story: Tina, a cookbook, and the cloves bedding down for winter.

The story

The bare field in the first days on the farm — The field, before. We moved in with the season already running — a rush to get transplants into soil ahead of the first frost.

A dump truck delivering compost to the field — Compost delivery. Healthy food comes from healthy soil and healthy biology.

Shoveling a truckload of woodchips — We love woodchips! Great mulch — returns nitrogen and reduces soil compaction.

The adventure

The first garlic beds under straw mulch — The first garlic, mulched. We were lucky to inherit a barn full of straw and well-aged fertilizer.

Planting asparagus along the fence line — Asparagus going in along the fence line — chasing childhood memories of family trips to harvest it wild.

Tina running the trencher for irrigation lines — Tina on the trencher. Digging in for the long haul and deep roots.

Vision

To grow fresh, local food that nourishes both people and the planet. We want our farm to be a place where neighbors connect and everyone feels they belong. Together, we can build a stronger, more caring community — one harvest at a time.

Mission

To grow fresh, local food and teach others to do the same — nourishing families, strengthening community, and caring for the earth.

Values

We are guided by integrity and kindness, with deep reverence for the land and all it provides. Through care and pure, regenerative practices, we earn the trust and connection of our community.

More than a farm

Each year we donate plant starts to Master Gardener fundraisers and share surplus vegetables with the Deer Park Food Bank. As the farm grows, we plan to welcome neighboring home-based producers to sell alongside us.

Moms Garden Patch is not a farm that happens to sell food. It is a community resource that is funded by selling food.