Our Story
First generation farmers on first generation farm land. Land purchased 1999, farm Est. 2017.
The farm
Our farm is our home, our home is our farm. Honored to make a living and life by working with the natural world, we strive to grow the highest quality vegetables with the lowest impact on the landscape. Shaping our hillside to fit our needs, creating what was deemed as un-farmable into a highly productive landscape of perennial and annual crops. Protecting our soil and working with nature, instead of against it, we maintain a high yield per square foot with outstanding quality. Setting an example that low impact, ecological farming is feasible.
Community
The relationships made within our community has become an important part of our passion for growing food. Our food being grown is a cultural product, a product that communities are built around. Seeing how our food can simply connect individuals and cultivate relationships, the farm reveals itself to be much more than a place of crop production.
Living soils and Practices.
On our farm we use appropriate tools and techniques to have the lowest impact on our soils. Implementing a permanent bed system, the tractor was abandoned freeing us from a petroleum based farm and bringing us to a human-scale operation. Our reduction in soil inversion (No tillage) along with our planting of perennial tree crops and hedgerows has a compounding effect on our carbon footprint. Reduction of soil inversion gave way for a more fertile farm, our tree crops and hedgerows not only serve as a year round carbon sink but builds a more ecological approach to farming, creating habitats for birds, beneficial insects, toads and other native creatures alike. With more living plants in place and less soil disturbance, we encourage bacterial, fungal life, and the soil web to thrive - creating balance and fertility, ultimately becoming a living soil. As a new generation of farmers, we are taking on the responsibility of ensuring a positive future for the generations to come. No longer can we sit idle and point fingers at who is responsible for our current climate and cultural issues, we must be the action needed “more walk and less talk” being proactive instead of re-active and looking ahead at the consequences of the environment, whether positive or negative. This is our responsibility as farmers of the future.
Acknowledgement
The soil beneath our feet has become richer with the collaboration of our team and our collective communities.