Resources:

-Gaia's Garden, Toby Hemenway

-The Four Season Harvest, Eliot Coleman

-Edible Forest Gardens, Dave Jacke

Food Forest Agriculture

Our farm philosophy is based in Food Forest Agriculture in which our farming practices try to mimic a natural forest ecosystem with a specific focus on keeping the soil structure intact and healthy year after year.  We do this by never tilling, but instead using extensive sheet mulching, a technique of layering compost, mulches, and soil nutrients.  This sheet mulch helps keep our soil moist and protects from evaporation and erosion!

We are working toward creating an edible forest with many different fruit and nut trees, berries, and a wide variety of pollinator plants, mulch makers, and dynamic nutrient accumulators.

Most of all, we are creating a fantastic garden to feed us and you!

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Resources:

-Pat Coleby's books on Natural Farming and Animal Care

-Dr. Paul Detloff's Complete Guide to Raising Animals Organically

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Sustainable Livestock

Our animals are the key to our sustainability as a farm!  Our pasture and garden health depends on animal manures and grazing to keep the soil healthy year after year.  

We take enormous care to raise the healthiest, happiest animals buy using natural animal care, giving our animals acres to roam, and spending lots of time with them.  

We are dedicated to raising the highest quality milk and meat possible, and we believe that sustainably raised animals provide vital nutrition to people and the land.

And yes, they all have names!  

Resources:

-Preservation Bee Council

Protecting Pollinators

Quite simply, if we do not have pollinators we do not eat!  Pollinators are responsible for much of the food we eat, and much of the food other animals need to survive.  We are serious about organic not just for the pollinators, but for the land, water, air, animals, and us too!  Chemical agriculture relies on deadly chemicals such as glyphosate that are known to cause cancer, kill pollinators, pollute food and water, and have been linked to a drastic rise in many health issues including autism, food allergies, and more.  

We plant large pollinator habitats to ensure healthy happy bees, birds, butterflies and bugs!

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