Frank Harlan | Seattle Wedding Officiant
Non-Religious Weddings for Couples of all Genders.
FranMo Urban Farm - Seattle, WA
"Heirloom Tomatoes and Elopement Weddings"
FranMo Urban Farm is not an active event venue. Yes, we show up in searches for Wedding Venues but, we are not booking any kind of events.
FranMo is a small urban farm that grows Heirloom Tomatoes for philanthropic purposes. Our plants are used for fundraising and donated to the neighbor-hood P-patches that grow food for the local Food Banks. This season we provided more that 130 plants that included Kellogg Breakfast, Lemon Boy and Cherokee Purple tomatoes.
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Certified Humanist Celebrant, Frank Harlan offers weddings for couples of all genders in our Elopement Garden or at a location of your choice anywhere around Seattle. Since 2019, dozens of couples have gotten married in an intimate ceremony presided over by Frank. He is available for Elopement Weddings (by appointment) in the morning, afternoon, and early evening. You can record your ceremony on your cell phone or Frank will help you stream it live to your family and friends. Contact Him for Date Availability.​
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Film and Video Crews have used our stunning park-like setting as a backdrop for their productions. And Non-Profits Organizations have hosted VIP Donor Socials amongst the trees and plants of the Gardens. Contact FranMo for Details.
About FranMo
Frank Harlan and his wife and partner of 20 years, Molly Cartwright have always shared a passion for landscaping and gardening. Their small urban farm currently spans an entire acre. Yes, that means a lot of weeding and nurturing of live plants, but for them those tasks serve as a meditation. It is the way they stay grounded.
Frank and Molly offer their private gardens for small get-togethers tied to Non-Profit Organizations during the time of the year when their gardens are at peak performance and the most beautiful (June-Sept) daytime hours.
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25,000sf Park-like setting that provides a relaxing environment and gives everyone a chance to engage and comfortably interact with one another."​
Access to The Gardens are limited to daylight hours and early evenings. ​
FranMo Urban Farm does not have chickens. Or cows, pigs or goats. We grow vegetables, flowering plants and trees. As stewards of the planet, we do our part to maintain and preserve a beautiful conservation parcel of land, located near former chestnut orchards. We don't grow chestnuts either. But, you've really got to check out our tomatoes!
Every season, since 2019, we have started several different varieties of Heirloom Tomatoes from seeds -- some from seeds we saved from the year before. The variety of Tomatoes have included Indigo Rose, Mortgage Lifter, Banana Legs, Early Girl, Better Boy, Seattle's Best, Charlie Chaplin and an assortment yellow pear and Tumbling Tom cherry tomatoes. This year several dozen plants will be grown and donated to the Magnuson Park P-Patch where gardeners volunteer to grow fresh produce for Seattle's Giving Gardens Network. These fresh vegetables are distributed to some of the smaller Food Bank at locations on campuses and in low-income communities throughout Seattle.
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This year's tomatoes will be Kellogg's Breakfast (Orange), Lemon Boy (Yellow) and Cherokee Purple (Which have a unique
We Grow Heirloom Tomatoes
Heirloom Tomatoes for Philanthropic Purposes.
MASON BEES The Queens of Pollination
Mason Bees are simply fascinating little creatures bring into your garden and so much fun to watch. This is our sixth season (2024) raising, harvesting, and pollinating our spring blooms with Mason Bees.
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The primary worker bee is the female, they are all queens. Male bees only live long enough to leave sperm samples with as many Female bees as they can, they get a week or so, then their life is over.
The queens however will go through a daily routine of collecting pollen in their furry little bodies and nectar in their mouths. Then making a ball of food, laying a egg, deciding whether it should be male or female and making it so. They will collect mud, build a wall and begin again -- building little chambers and filling them. The eggs that were laid will become larva who will eat the food left in their chamber, create a cocoon and go to sleep until spring.
Wanna know more about our friends, the Mason Bees?
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