Our desire is to build a relationship of trust
with our customers that goes beyond
labeling and certifications.

Our Growing Techniques

Soil Fertility

Our primary method of increasing soil fertility is by using organic fertilizer and composts. We use NOP compliant feather meal, blood meal, bone meal, oyster shell, and rock phosphate as amendments depending on the crop. When buying compost, we do our utmost due diligence before purchase to make sure it is the best we can find. We are stewards of this farm land and are investing our time and energy to create a sustainable farming system that is resilient to pests, disease and drought. We hope to close the loop on the inputs of that system as much as possible by incorporating livestock in the future.

Pest and Pathogen Control

We use insect barriers (row covers) for certain crops to prevent infestation of certain pests that are particularly bad in our region. We have an established crop rotation plan that keeps plants from the same taxonomic family from being planted in the same beds season to season. We grow a diversity of crops which increases our resilience to pest and pathogen pressure. We use botanical sprays (essential oils, teas, compost teas, etc.) to reduce pest pressure. We use an OMRI listed Bacillus Thuringiensis (a naturally occurring bacteria) for reducing hornworms, army worms and cabbage loopers only when necessary.   

We encourage beneficial birds, insects and bats to work our fields as another technique to reduce pest pressure. 

Weed Control

We cultivate regularly using hand tools as a method to prevent weeds from establishing. We mulch heavily using regional wheat straw or landscape fabrics. We use a flame weeder on certain direct seeded crops pre-emergence to reduce weed pressure. We utilize silage tarps to germinate and then kill latent weed seeds.

Seed Sourcing

Johnny's Selected Seeds

High Mowing Organic Seeds

Sow True Seed

Osborne Quality Seeds