Regenerative Farming
Did you know that there are farming practices that actually restore the land and soil, methods that don't require massive use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, systems that create healthy, nourishing, beyond organic food, all in harmony with nature and the natural ecology while producing more food per acre than conventional farming?
Conventional farming produces the most profit per acre while minimizing human labor. But it produces very poor quality food loaded with harmful chemicals. The combination of this very poor quality food and the environmental damage to the environment from these farming practices is responsible for much of our environmental pollution and produces much of our climate changing atmospheric carbon. Additionally industrial agricultural practices have created an epidemic of chronic and autoimmune diseases.
Holistic regenerative agriculture and permaculture methods reverse and repair this damage and sequester atmospheric carbon providing solutions to most of our environmental problems. But it requires more labor, exactly what we have in our community, labor to heal the earth.
Our regenerative farming practices are informed by permaculture and the work of Gabe Brown, Joel Salatin and Allan Savory among many others. Permaculture principles also promote the management of land to support healthy populations of wild species alongside domestic animals and crops. Additionally we are installing vegetable gardens and permaculture orchards.
Currently we have a one acre high fenced garden and orchard. Two years ago we drilled a well that waters this operation. The vegetable garden and orchard are in the process of being planted.
Adjacent to the garden is a livestock pen with our goats and chickens. For the first time ever we are getting goat's milk to drink in addition to our daily eggs! We are in the process of setting up a pastured poultry egg laying operation with intensive grazing for several cows to run on our 20 acres of pasture.
Did you know that there are farming practices that actually restore the land and soil, methods that don't require massive use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, systems that create healthy, nourishing, beyond organic food, all in harmony with nature and the natural ecology while producing more food per acre than conventional farming?
Conventional farming produces the most profit per acre while minimizing human labor. But it produces very poor quality food loaded with harmful chemicals. The combination of this very poor quality food and the environmental damage to the environment from these farming practices is responsible for much of our environmental pollution and produces much of our climate changing atmospheric carbon. Additionally industrial agricultural practices have created an epidemic of chronic and autoimmune diseases.
Holistic regenerative agriculture and permaculture methods reverse and repair this damage and sequester atmospheric carbon providing solutions to most of our environmental problems. But it requires more labor, exactly what we have in our community, labor to heal the earth.
Our regenerative farming practices are informed by permaculture and the work of Gabe Brown, Joel Salatin and Allan Savory among many others. Permaculture principles also promote the management of land to support healthy populations of wild species alongside domestic animals and crops. Additionally we are installing vegetable gardens and permaculture orchards.
Currently we have a one acre high fenced garden and orchard. Two years ago we drilled a well that waters this operation. The vegetable garden and orchard are in the process of being planted.
Adjacent to the garden is a livestock pen with our goats and chickens. For the first time ever we are getting goat's milk to drink in addition to our daily eggs! We are in the process of setting up a pastured poultry egg laying operation with intensive grazing for several cows to run on our 20 acres of pasture.