Located on the north side of Bend, Oregon, Authentique Artfarm is a market garden and art studio focused on sustainably growing the highest quality vegetables, creating art, and supporting the community.
Owners Kyle and Michèle started Authentique Artfarm in 2023 with the goal of creating a small farm that would contribute to, and connect them to, their community, and which would serve as a source of inspiration for themselves and for others.
Throughout the season, the farm produces vegetables, seedlings, and flowers for sale and donation, is a working art studio, and hosts art workshops.
Our Farming Practices
Our goal is to grow the highest-quality food and plants in a sustainable way. Whether for sale or for donation, everyone deserves quality, nutritious food.
For the health of ourselves, our customers, our neighbors, and the many inhabitants of our garden and our larger property, we follow organic, no-till practices.
We see nature as something to work with, not battle against. To that end, we are continuously building rich, living soil and creating habitat within our garden to promote a thriving, balanced ecosystem that serves to maximize productivity and minimize pest and disease management.
Art Workshops
Along with growing quality produce, we pride ourselves on our unique dual disciplinary approach that includes an emphasis on building creativity and community. Through a series of workshops led by our very own resident artist, Michèle, we invite members of our community to join us on the farm and create works inspired by the world around us.
Introducing Artist/Farmer Michele Guieu
Michele Guieu is an interdisciplinary environmental artist and educator whose work explores resilience in the face of our unfolding polycrisis. In her large-scale site-specific installations, she uses found and foraged materials—willow, stone, pressed blooms, recycled metal—to create sculptural narratives that balance celebration of nature’s beauty with a clear-eyed acknowledgment of ecological limits.
Michele Guieu Artist’s Talk
Her current art exhibition, Seeds of Abundance: Limits, Loss & Regeneration at Scalehouse Gallery in Bend is a multi-room installation that explores abundance not through accumulation but through attention to what already surrounds us. Using natural and salvaged materials gathered on-site and from Authentique Artfarm—branches, seeds, flowers, stones, and found elements—Michele Guieu creates a series of immersive environments that invite slowing down, reflection, and participation.
The Eleprocon Chronicles
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