Our Growing Philosophy
In 2017 our farm became certified USDA Organic through OEFFA and we added the Real Organic Project certification in 2019, but we have always grown our vegetables and flowers without the use of synthetic herbicides, pesticides, or fertilizers.  This was a bias I bring from my childhood, that was further strengthened once I began having children.  Why would we want to eat any other way?  And maybe even more importantly, why would we want to treat the earth in any other way?  Our goal is to leave as small a footprint as possible from our farming, and to provide the healthiest, tastiest product possible for you and your family. 

In more recent years, with the growing movement for soil health and the profusion of research around soil biology, we have transitioned our farm into a no-till operation.  These methodologies, which extend far beyond the absence of tillage, help us to grow a higher quality, more nutritious product.  It also makes our soils (and therefore our whole operation) much more resilient to the impacts and unpredictability of our changing climate, while additionally working to sequester carbon in the earth, making it a system that not only withstands, but also stabilizes and reverses climate change.

I like to think of soil as a community - a diverse group of organisms living together, all with different needs, all fulfilling different roles that collectively form a structure - the one from which we source our food. In a healthy soil there is plenty of food to go around, so resources are shared and traded between organisms, which makes everyone stronger. And much like a human community, things go awry if everybody looks alike and acts alike. So our practices promote as diverse and holistic of a soil makeup as possible.