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Caroline Van Slyke spotted it from a meeting downtown: a 1903 bungalow, abandoned, sitting on a dirt lot.1
She has said it felt like the house was asking to be adopted. Within days she was talking to the developer about buying it.1
The floorboards were rotted and the walls were fire-damaged. She restored the hardware and the original fireplace, and the dirt lot became an orchard and a vegetable garden.1
“The house nobody wanted became a haven for others.”1
Caroline Van Slyke, founder of Boho Farm
Today Boho Farm is an urban farm and event space on about a quarter acre: farm dinners, wood-fired pizza nights, seasonal workshops in gardening, florals, preserving and painting, and intimate weddings.1
The property is also home to The Carriage House, a guesthouse rental, and to Caroline's interior design studio, Fine + Folk.1
If you want to see more of it, its seasonal dinners and workshops are the way in.1
Boho Farm offers a different kind of Roosevelt story.
Neighborhoods are shaped by more than buildings. They are also shaped by how people choose to use land.
An urban farm creates a very different experience of a city block than another building or parking lot. It introduces food, plants, gathering and cultivation into the middle of central Phoenix.
That makes it an important counterpoint to the development stories found along the rest of the route. After a night spent looking at housing, historic buildings and new construction, Boho Farm offers another example of what a piece of urban land can contribute to a neighborhood.
A city is not only what gets built. It is also what gets grown, cared for and shared.
Storied is about what a neighborhood chooses to keep. Boho Farm is what it looks like when one person keeps a house everyone else had given up on.
Caroline said yes to a QR code on her gate for First Friday, which is how Boho Farm became the eighth story.
On Storied night, the eighth stamp was here, at the gate.
Small places like this stay open because people show up. Go to a dinner, take a class, book the space.
A Storied Series by Bri Roche, founder of Roche Home Co.