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At our farm, we use no pesticides or chemicals of any kind, and mimic Nature as much as we can. All our farm practices seek to grow the most wholesome and nutrient-rich foods. Good food is the foundation of good health, which is the foundation of a good life.

Good food is the foundation of good health, which is the foundation of a good life.

Modern agriculture and land management practices have wrecked our planet Earth. The food produced by modern agriculture is of poor quality and nutrition. Our culture is addicted to processed foods and is losing the wisdom of the kitchen and the garden. We are paying for this with our health and our quality of life. This garden began as my personal journey to have good food to eat, and to rediscover lost wisdom about how to eat well and be healthy. I am still on that journey, and have made soooo much progress.

These are the main principles that we work with to grow food as naturally as possible:

How can I best care for this land while growing an abundance of good food? And do it in efficient ways that keep the cost of food down? That is basically the question I am striving to answer better and better each season.

Matsanobu Fukuoka, author of the great book: One Straw Revolution, says: “the common belief has been that natural food should be expensive. If it is not expensive, people suspect that it is not natural.” Then he says: “if natural foods are expensive, they become luxury foods and only rich people are able to afford them. If natural food is to become widely popular, it must be available locally at a reasonable price.” (pg 91). His book and many others have been a great inspiration to me in life and in my way of farming.

“if natural foods are expensive, they become luxury foods and only rich people are able to afford them. If natural food is to become widely popular, it must be available locally at a reasonable price.“

Matsanobu Fukuoka

This idea that “organic” food has to be expensive and fancy is just plain wrong! This is part of why I have avoided getting an “organic certification” and will never get one. Organic food has nothing to do with filling out paperwork, paying fees, and using fancy and expensive “organic products” to kill pests. It has to do with mimicking nature, like a child mimics its parents.

I think that the reason natural food is more expensive today is twofold:

1. Governments subsidize and support “conventional” agriculture that uses chemicals. Corporations all favor chemical agriculture and pour their money and resources into it. They say they support small businesses and farmers, but in action favor the big chemical corporations.
2. People still talk and act like chemical agriculture is “conventional” or normal, and so all thought on how to manage land is inevitably tainted with this wrong supposition. Both farmers and consumers unconsciously perceive the methods and results of chemical industrial agriculture to be normal. When natural foods are grown and purchased, people always compare to the false standard that chemical agriculture has created.

As Bill Mollison, founder of permaculture, says: “Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple”. We just need to spend more time in the garden and the kitchen. More time with our family. Less time buying junk. More time in nature. Follow nature and the details will take care of themselves.

That’s why I am here farming, living, and trying to provide naturally grown, nutrient dense, pesticide free food to my family and yours. Trying to keep the price as low as possible by leveraging nature’s wisdom to be efficient and low-input. While out-competing the industrial agriculture corporations and their government subsidized, establishment supported pesticide food.

So if you’ve read this far, please consider joining our CSA! It is truly the best way, other than growing it yourself, that you can get the best food your family could eat. CSA members get the best prices and the best foods that our gardens have to offer. Or consider visiting us at one of the farmer’s markets that we attend! Or visit us at the farm.

Thanks for reading!

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