Our Farming Practices
We care deeply about the water, soil, organisms, and humans around us. This care informs all aspects of our decision making. We hope to create a healthier local community and ecosystem.
Regenerative Agriculture
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Keep the soil covered as much as possible with organic mulches, compost, and living plant roots. This protects the earth from leaching nutrients, water, and carbon.
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Disturb the soil as little as possible through strategic tillage and the eventual elimination of tillage in our farming system.
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Keep the soil planted as much as possible. Living plant roots have the ability to restore and sustain the microbiology in our native soils. We use intensive, high rotation plant schedules to insure that no bed is left without plant roots for 10 days or less.
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Lastly, increasing biodiversity below and above ground enables our land to be highly productive and resilient to a changing climate.
When we take care of the land, it takes care of us.
No Till, No Tractor
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Initially we till to break up the heavy clay soil of the Rogue Valley. Then, we create permanent beds that won’t see a tiller again.
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By using hand-held tools, we gain a closer relationship to the land and the produce we grow, while avoiding excessive tillage, heavy machinery, maintenance, gasoline, and noise.
Chemical & Synthetic Fertilizer Free
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Local organic matter helps our operation to stay healthy and productive by feeding the microbes in our soil.
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We brew a solution of water and worm castings to create a microbial solution to spray onto our crops
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Our inputs have easy to understand names because they come from nature: Kelp, Alfalfa, Fish Bone Meal, and Humic Acids.